Butrimonys
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Butrimonys is a small town in Alytus County in southern Lithuania. In 2011 it had a population of 941.[1]
Butrimonys massacre
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]
Famous people
- art historian
- Senda Berenson (1868–1954), known as the Mother of Women's Basketball. Berenson introduced basketball to women in 1892 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, a year after being first invented by James Naismith. She also authored the first Basketball Guide for Women (1901–07).[4]
References
- ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 2, 2017.
- ^ Austin, Ben (1997). "The Einsatzgruppen -- Mobile Killing Units". Middle Tennessee State University. Archived from the original on 2010-06-19.
- ISSN 1476-7937.
- ISBN 9780883144909.
External links
Media related to Butrimonys at Wikimedia Commons
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