Researching Vassili Kononov
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Records of Vassili Kononov on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Vassili Kononov and the Kononov Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Vassili Kononov
Vassili Kononov
Vassili Makarovich Kononov or Vasiliy Makarovich Kononov (, ; 1 January 1923 – 31 March 2011) was a Soviet partisan during World War II, who was convicted by Latvian supreme court as a war criminal. He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity.
Kononov was convicted for his role in three deaths in Mazie Bati, a Latvian village where local inhabitants had denounced alleged partisans who were then killed by German troops. A short time later Kononov led a unit, posing as German Wehrmacht personnel, into the village and killed nine civilians, including three women, one in the late stages of pregnancy who was burned alive. A Latvian court declared the killing of the three women a war crime.
Source: Vassili Kononov, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kononov
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