Butrimonys | |
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Town | |
Coordinates: 54°30′10″N 24°15′10″E / 54.50278°N 24.25278°E | |
Country | Lithuania |
County | Alytus County |
Municipality | Alytus District Municipality |
Eldership | Butrimonys eldership |
Capital of | Butrimonys eldership |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 941 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Butrimonys is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 941. [1]
On 9 September 1941, shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Jews of Butrimonys were massacred by Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian collaborators. Rounded up and marched along a road, they were lined up beside a mass grave and machine-gunned. According to the Jäger Report, 740 Jews were murdered in one day: 67 men, 370 women, and 303 children. [2]
What distinguished Butrimonys from hundreds of similar crimes in the Baltic region was the survival of a detailed record left by a local Jew Khone Boyarski. Hiding with his son, Boyarski described the events in a farewell letter to his relatives abroad. Boyarski was later killed by the Nazis; the letter was discovered by accident by a graduate student in the archives of Yad Vashem. [3]
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Butrimonys | |
---|---|
Town | |
Coordinates: 54°30′10″N 24°15′10″E / 54.50278°N 24.25278°E | |
Country | Lithuania |
County | Alytus County |
Municipality | Alytus District Municipality |
Eldership | Butrimonys eldership |
Capital of | Butrimonys eldership |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 941 |
Time zone | UTC+2 ( EET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+3 ( EEST) |
Butrimonys is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 941. [1]
On 9 September 1941, shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, the Jews of Butrimonys were massacred by Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian collaborators. Rounded up and marched along a road, they were lined up beside a mass grave and machine-gunned. According to the Jäger Report, 740 Jews were murdered in one day: 67 men, 370 women, and 303 children. [2]
What distinguished Butrimonys from hundreds of similar crimes in the Baltic region was the survival of a detailed record left by a local Jew Khone Boyarski. Hiding with his son, Boyarski described the events in a farewell letter to his relatives abroad. Boyarski was later killed by the Nazis; the letter was discovered by accident by a graduate student in the archives of Yad Vashem. [3]
Media related to Butrimonys at Wikimedia Commons