Glitiškės
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Glitiškės (Polish: Glinciszki) is village in Vilnius district, on the eastern bank of the Širvys Lake. The village is infamous for murder of few dozens of local people by Lithuanian police in 1944.
[edit] Massacre
On 20 June 1944 thirty seven, mostly Polish, villagers were killed by Nazi subordinated Lithuanian policemen retaliating for the death of four policemen by the Polish resistance of Armia Krajowa.[1] The commander responsible for murder of civilians in Glitiškės was tried and executed by Germans[2]. The massacre triggered a revenge of Polish partisans against Lithuanian civilians (see Dubingiai for more details) [3].
[edit] References
- ^ Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust, McFarland & Company, 1997, ISBN 0786403713. Google Print, p.168, p.169
- ^ (Lithuanian) Kazimieras Garšva. Armija krajova ir Vietinė rinktinė Lietuvoje (Armia Krajowa and Local Lithuanian Detachment in Lithuania), "XXI amžius", No.61 (1264), 2004
- ^ (Polish) Gazeta Wyborcza, 2001-02-14, Litewska prokuratura przesłuchuje weteranów AK (Lithuanian prosecutor questioning AK veterans), last accessed on 7 June 2006
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