Glitiškės

Glitiškės

Glitiškės ( _pl. Glinciszki) is village in Vilnius district, on the eastern bank of the Širvys Lake. The village is infamous for the massacre of few dozens of local Polish people by Lithuanian police in 1944.Tadeusz Piotrowski, "Poland's Holocaust", McFarland & Company, 1997, ISBN 0786403713. [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4FlatJCro4C&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&sig=Pq-OjHaAP-wfOIIJb_Gqu2GI3aQ Google Print, p.168] , [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4FlatJCro4C&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&sig=mRA3077GHq2inwmDltCl0gNnCh4 p.169] ] pl icon Gazeta Wyborcza, 2001-02-14, " [http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/swiat/1,34175,151474.html Litewska prokuratura przesłuchuje weteranów AK"] (Lithuanian prosecutor questioning AK veterans), last accessed on 7 June 2006]

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