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The Nazis arrive in Lithuania and after a 3-day purge in Vilnius, around 5,000 - 10,000 of the Jews in the city have already been killed.

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What the letter Hermann Göring sent may have looked like

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Hermann Göring instructs Reinhard Heydrich to prepare for the "Final Solution".

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On September 1, 1941, it was mandatory to wear yellow stars on your clothing if you were a Jew. Jews had to pay for the stars and if they did not wear them they faced horrible consequences and/or death.

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On September 6, 1941, the Vilna or Vilnius Ghetto was established in the city of Vilnius which was part of Northeastern Poland near the border of Lithuania holding around 40,000 Jews in two sections. Around 6,000 Jews never made it into the ghetto and were going to be captured and killed in the following days. The Jewish councils are created; in ghetto 1 the council is made up of well-known and respected people of the community, in ghetto 2, the council was picked randomly due to the fact that it was going to be destroyed soon.

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Section two of the Vilna Ghetto with a population of around 11,000 Jews is liquidated and destroyed after only a few weeks of being open.

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The elderly and sick Jews were consistently murdered from its opening but was stopped in December of 1941.

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The Jewish council mandates vaccinations for common viruses for people between the ages 14-60 in order to keep the population inside the ghetto healthy and avoid outbreaks.

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A part of the Vilna Ghetto Memorial in Lithuania

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The 20,000 Jews left in the Vilna Ghetto (Section 1) are liquidated and whoever is alive is deported (most likely to other ghettos or concentration camps).