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  1. Oct 1, 2020 · Archives. Gargzdai (Gorzd), Lithuania. Soviet Interrogations Regarding the Killing of the Jewish Women and Children of Gargzdai.

  2. Sep 16, 2017 · The Tragedy of Lithuania: New Documents on Crimes of Lithuanian Collaborators during the Second World War was first noted at the Resources page of the KehilaLinks site for Trashkun (Troskunai), Lithuania. The 201 killed in Gargzdai on June 24 may have included a few individuals who were not Jewish.

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  3. The Soviet Union annexed the remaining part of Lithuania in 1940, so the border between the Soviet Union and Germany again ran just west of Gargzdai. As a consequence, Gargzdai was among the first towns invaded when Germany attacked the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.

  4. www.jewishgen.org › Yizkor › GargzdaiGargzdai, Lithuania

    Gorzd book; A memorial to the Jewish community of Gorzd (Gargždai, Lithuania) 55°43' / 21°24' Translation of Sefer Gorzd; ayara be-hayeha u-be-hilyona

  5. Gorzd – A Shtetl in Lithuania. Chaim Shoys. Translated by Gloria Berkenstat Freund. It is a small shtetl [town], not far from Memel. Jews call it Gorzd. It is called Gargzdai in Lithuanian and the Germans on the other side of the border translated the name as Garsden. In Russian it was called Gorzhdi. The Polish name is Gorzdy.

  6. Among them were several young women from Gorzd: Shoshana (Rashel) Asher (now in Israel), S. Ruppell, Yaha and Rosa Shlomowitz. Lithuanian Jews formed the greater part of the Lithuanian Division. Set up in the Soviet Union, it fought most courageously in decisive battles.

  7. Jun 26, 2021 · Over 200 Jewish people from Gargždai were murdered on June 24, 1941, two days after the start of the Soviet–Nazi war, marking the first victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania. It took Germans a week to occupy nearly all of Lithuania, says Artūras Bubnys, director of Lithuania’s state-funded Genocide and Resistance Research ...