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The ghetto
was liquidated for good on September 23-24. Some 3,700 men and women
were transported to concentration camps in Estonia and Latvia. More
than 4,000 children, women, and the elderly were sent to the Sobibor
extermination camp, where they were murdered. Several hundred
elderly and ill Jews were taken to Ponary and murdered there. About
2,500 Jews were left behind in labor camps in Vilna. More than 1,000
went into hiding in the depopulated ghetto, but nearly all were
found in the months following the liquidation. The Jews remaining in
the ghetto were taken to Ponary and murdered several days before the
liberation of Vilna. |
