Vilnius in WW2 History | World War II Database

6 Sep 1941

Lithuania

The Vilna Ghetto was established in Lithuania, containing 40,000 Jews. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Vilnius | CPC]

17 Sep 1941

Lithuania

The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 337 adult male, 687 adult female, and 247 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 1,271 people. 4 Communists were also executed in Vilnius by Jager's Einsatzgruppen on this date. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Vilnius | CPC]

31 Dec 1941

Lithuania

Anton Schmid hosted the leadership of the Dror Jewish underground in his apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania to celebrate the new year. ww2dbase [Anton Schmid | Vilnius | CPC]

13 Apr 1942

Lithuania

Anton Schmid was executed by his superiors in Vilnius, Lithuania as a traitor; he had helped about 250 Jews escape from certain death. ww2dbase [Anton Schmid | Vilnius | CPC]

1 Sep 1943

Lithuania

German and Estonian police surrounded the Vilna ghetto in Lithuania and began deporting Jews to forced labor camps in Estonia. The underground United Partisan Organization (FPO) issued a manifesto urging the ghetto residents to resist. After an abortive clash between the FPO and German forces, the Judenrat Chairman Jacob Gens reached an agreement with the Germans to fill the required deportee quota, 5,000 Jews,in exchange for the withdraw of German forces from the ghetto. A small number of Jews were able to escape the ghetto during the failed clash; some of them joined nearby resistance groups. ww2dbase [Vilnius | CPC]

23 Sep 1943

Lithuania

The Vilna Ghetto in Lithuania was liquidated. ww2dbase [Discovery of Concentration Camps and the Holocaust | Vilnius | CPC]

Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, Hugh Martyr, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis

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