Koniuchy Massacre

Koniuchy Massacre

The Koniuchy (Kaniƫkai) massacre was a massacre of civilians carried out by a Soviet partisan unit along with a contingent of Jewish partisans under their command during the Second World War in the Polish village of Koniuchy (now Kaniƫkai, Lithuania) on January 29, 1944.

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