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Authors BECK, Joseph D., SCHNEIDER, Samuel G., JOL, Harry M., FUERSTENBERG, Madeline M., KOFMAN, Chloe C., FREUND, Richard A., REEDER, Philip P., JAROCKIS, Romas., and KUJELIS, Giedrius., (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) (University of Hartford) (Duquesne University) (Klaipėda University) (Rokiškis Regional Museum) Abstract The Trakas-Pempiškis woods, located to the south of Rokiškis, Lithuania, is the site of a mass execution of an estimated 28 Svėdasai Jews in the summer of 1941. During WWII, 95 percent of the Jewish population in Lithuania were killed by the Nazis, Lithuanian militiamen and Nazi sympathizers. The militiamen were of a group known as the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and as the then-Soviet occupied Lithuania awaited the inevitable German invasion of the Soviet Union, LAF used this opportunity to eliminate the Jewish presence in Lithuania under the guise of patriotism and support for the Nazis. According eyewitness accounts, the 28 Jews who were killed at Trakas ...

The Good Nazi Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbsxDUsFxfk University of Hartford Story Authors BECK, Joseph D.1; BURDS, Luke T.1; MATAITIS, Richard M.1; JOL, Harry M.1; FREUND, Richard A.2; McClymont, Alastair F.3; Bauman, Paul3; Reeder, Philip P.4; (1) Department of Geography and Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 105 Garfield Avenue, P.O. Box 4004, Eau Claire, WI 54702; (2) Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117; (3) Advisian, 151 Canada Olympic Road SW, Calgary, Alberta; (4) Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15282. Abstract      Major Karl Plague was a German officer during World War Two responsible for saving 250 Jewish forced labor workers at HKP 562 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Another 750 other workers were captured and killed by Nazi SS members on their retreat out of the country. Their bodies were bur...