During the German invasion of Lithuania in June 1941, a number of anti-Jewish pogroms took place. Unlike the 1941 pogroms in eastern Poland, which were committed by unaffiliated civilians, these pogroms were carried out by Lithuanian paramilitary forces.[1] The most deadly of these was the Kaunas pogrom; over three days, 3,500 Jews were killed in the city.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Mishkin, Benjamin (2023). "Mass Violence without Mass Politics: Political Culture and the Holocaust in Lithuania". Politics, Violence, Memory: The New Social Science of the Holocaust. Cornell University Press. pp. 124–136. ISBN 978-1-5017-6676-3.
  2. ^ Kwiet, Konrad (1998). "Rehearsing for Murder: The Beginning of the Final Solution in Lithuania in June 1941". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 12 (1): 3–26. doi:10.1093/hgs/12.1.3.
  3. ^ Stasiulis, Stanislovas (2020). "The Holocaust in Lithuania: The Key Characteristics of Its History, and the Key Issues in Historiography and Cultural Memory". East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures. 34 (1): 261–279. doi:10.1177/0888325419844820.
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