facts about memorial signs in the Paneriai memorial and the objects of the former mass murder site (killing pits, tranches, gates, paths, etc.) are now presented in the webpage created by the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum. The massacre was recorded by Polish journalist Kazimierz Sakowicz (1899-1944) in a series of journal entries in hiding from his farm house in Wilno, Lithuania. After Sakowicz's passing in 1944, the collection of entries were located and found on various scrap pieces of paper, soda bottles and a calendar from 1941 by holocaust-survivor and author Rahel Margolis. Margolis, who had lost family members during the Ponary Massacre, later published the collection in 1999 in Polish. The diary became widely important to tracing the timeline of the massacre, and in many instances gave closure to surviving family members on what happened to their loved ones. Written in detail, the diary is a form of testimonial writing from a first-person witness account of the atrocities. Memorial at the site See also List of massacres in Lithuania Lithuanian collaboration with Nazi Germany History of Vilnius References Footnotes Citations Further reading External links Vilna During the Holocaust; Yad Vashem. US Holocaust Museum article on death of Vilna's Jews; Holocaust Encyclopedia, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Vilna: 1941-1943; RTR Foundation. Ponary - The Vilna Killing Site: Prototype for the Permanent Death Camps in Poland, Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team. Neglecting the Lithuanian Holocaust, Timothy Snyder, The New York Review, July 25, 2011. The crime in Ponary 1941–1944; Institute Of National Remembrance Film and images . Chronicles of the Vilna Ghetto: wartime photographs & documents; vilnaghetto.com 1941 in Lithuania 1942 in Lithuania 1943 in Lithuania 1944 in Lithuania Anti-Polish sentiment in Europe Einsatzgruppen Germany–Poland relations History of Vilnius Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Lithuania Jewish Lithuanian history Jewish Polish history Lithuania–Poland relations Lithuanian collaboration with Nazi Germany Massacres in 1941 Massacres in 1942 Massacres in 1943 Massacres in 1944 Paneriai World War II crimes in Poland World War II massacres