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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4974370, member: 110350&quot;]I&#039;m sorry myself for making assumptions, but my mind goes to only one place when I think of Lithuania and my family there, and I should realize that that isn&#039;t true of everyone.&nbsp; It&#039;s not really a topic for this forum, and I&#039;m just stating it as a fact to educate people who might not know about it; certainly not with the intention of provoking a discussion. My Lithuanian Jewish relatives, including my grandfather&#039;s first cousin and his family and many other relatives who lived in Jurbarkas (right across the German border), were murdered within a month or so of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, among the &gt; 137,000 Jews murdered by just one of the Einsatzkommmandos (No. 3), the Nazi mobile killing squads (a subgroup of the Einsatzgruppen) in just one part of Lithuania, from July through November 1941. The Jäger Report, one of the few such documents remaining, was prepared by Einsatzkommando 3&#039;s commander Walter Jäger and gives all the daily totals of the numbers of Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish children liquidated in each town, the grand total in that five-month period was&nbsp; &quot;138,272 people: 136,421 Jews (46,403 men, 55,556 women and 34,464 children), 1,064 communists, 653 mentally disabled, and 134 others. The report concluded that Lithuania was now free of Jews except for about 34,500 Jews concentrated in Vilnius, Kaunas and Šiauliai Ghettos. However, [the] Jäger Report did not tally all Jewish deaths in Lithuania as it did not include executions by Einsatzkommando 2 in Šiauliai area (approx. 46,000 people), in some border areas (for example, in Šakiai on September 13, Kudirkos Naumiestis on September 19, Kretinga in July–August, Gargždai on June 24, 1941), or even in Vilnius (for example, the report is missing the October 1 (Yom Kippur) massacre of some 4,000 Jews).&quot;&nbsp; See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4ger_Report;" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4ger_Report;" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jäger_Report;</a> a page from the Report is reproduced as part of the article.&nbsp; In all, about 95% of the approximately 200,000 Jews in Lithuania before the German invasion were &quot;liquidated,&quot; mostly by the end of 1941, in one small part of the Holocaust.&nbsp; And that&#039;s why I have no more relatives there. What happened to my family in Germany, where my mother was born and, as I&#039;ve mentioned before, lost most of her family. is another similarly tragic story that I won&#039;t go into.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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