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PANERIAI , the site where the Nazis and their Lithuanian accomplices murdered one hundred thousand people during World War II, lies within Vilnius city limits in a forest at the edge of a suburb 10km southwest of the centre. Seventy thousand of those killed here were Jews from Vilnius, who were systematically exterminated from the time the Germans arrived in June 1941 until they were driven out by the Soviet army in 1944. The killing grounds are about 1km into the woods due west of Paneriai train station and marshalling yards. The entrance to the site is marked by the Paneriai Memorial (Paneriu Memorialas). Here, two stone slabs with Russian and Lithuanian inscriptions commemorate the hundred thousand murdered "Soviet citizens", flanking a central slab with an inscription in Hebrew commemorating "seventy thousand Jewish men, women and children". From the memorial a path leads to the Paneriai Museum , Agrastu 15 (Paneriu muziejus; officially Mon & Wed-Sat 11am-6pm; best to check times tel 2/620 730; donations requested), with a small display detailing what happened here. Nearby are two monuments, one with a Hebrew inscription (English on the obverse) honouring the seventy thousand Vilnius Jews, the other a Soviet obelisk recalling the "victims of fascist terror". From here paths lead to the pits in the woods where the Nazis burnt the bodies of their victims and to another eight-metre pit where the bones of the dead were crushed. To get to Paneriai take a southwest-bound suburban train from Vilnius station and alight at Paneriai. From the station platform descend onto Agrastu gatve, turn right and follow the road through the woods for about a kilometre
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