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HKP 562 was the site of a Nazi forced labor camp for Jews in Vilnius, Lithuania, during the Holocaust.^[1]

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Jewish Lithuanian history
Nazi concentration camps in Lithuania
Vilnius in World War II

Einsatzgruppen

Einsatzgruppen (also 'task forces') were Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary death squads of Nazi Germany that were responsible for mass murder, primarily by shooting, during World War II (1939–1945) in German-occupied Europe.

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Electrical resistivity tomography

Electrical resistivity tomography (ERT) or electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) is a geophysical technique for imaging sub-surface structures from electrical resistivity measurements made at the surface, or by electrodes in one or more boreholes.

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Extermination camp

Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust.

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Fordham University Press

The Fordham University Press is a publishing house, a division of Fordham University, that publishes primarily in the humanities and the social sciences.

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Ground-penetrating radar

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a geophysical method that uses radar pulses to image the subsurface.

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Hirsch Schwartzberg

Hirsch Schwartzberg (Szwarcberg, Schwarzberg) (28 October 1907, in Vilna – 17 October 1987 in Ashdod) was a Jewish leader of Holocaust survivors (שארית הפּליטה) under the American occupation of Berlin.

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Jews

The Jews (יְהוּדִים) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites of the ancient Near East, and whose traditional religion is Judaism.

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Karl Plagge

Karl Plagge (10 July 1897 – 19 June 1957) was a German Army officer who rescued Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania by issuing work permits to non-essential workers.

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Kaunas

Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

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Lithuania

Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe.

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Martin Weiss (Nazi official)

Martin Weiss (21 February 1903 – 30 September 1984) was a German Nazi official and de facto commander of the Vilna Ghetto and a Holocaust perpetrator.

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Nazi concentration camps

From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps (Konzentrationslager), including subcamps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.

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Oberscharführer

Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between 1932 and 1945.

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Ponary massacre

The Ponary massacre (zbrodnia w Ponarach), or the Paneriai massacre (Panerių žudynės), was the mass murder of up to 100,000 people, mostly Jews, Poles, and Russians, by German SD and SS and the Lithuanian Ypatingasis būrys killing squads, during World War II and the Holocaust in the Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland. HKP 562 forced labor camp and Ponary massacre are Jewish Lithuanian history and Vilnius in World War II.

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Red Army

The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union.

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Riga

Riga is the capital, the primate, and the largest city of Latvia, as well as one of the most populous cities in the Baltic States.

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Samuel Bak

Samuel Bak (שמואל בק; born 12 August 1933) is a Jewish Lithuanian-American painter and writer who survived the Holocaust and immigrated to Israel in 1948.

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Schutzstaffel

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylised as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes) was a major paramilitary organisation under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II.

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Singing Revolution

The Singing Revolution was a series of events from 1987 to 1991 that led to the restoration of independence of the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania at the end of the Cold War.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust was the genocide of European Jews during World War II.

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University of Hartford

The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut.

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Vilna Ghetto

The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered italic. HKP 562 forced labor camp and Vilna Ghetto are Jewish Lithuanian history and Vilnius in World War II.

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Vilnius

Vilnius, previously known in English as Vilna, is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the second-most-populous city in the Baltic states.

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Vilnius offensive

The Vilnius offensive (lit) occurred as part of the third phase of Operation Bagration, the Soviet Red Army's strategic summer offensive against the German Wehrmacht in June and July 1944. HKP 562 forced labor camp and Vilnius offensive are Vilnius in World War II.

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Wehrmacht

The Wehrmacht were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HKP_562_forced_labor_camp

Also known as HKP 562, HKP 562 Slave Labor Camp, HKP 562 forced labour camp, Heereskraftfahrpark 562.