Mass graves from Nazi prisoner-of war camps in Lithuania: what forensic archaeology and anthropology can disclose

Prof. Dr. Rimantas Jankauskas, Department of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, Vilnius University, Lithuania.

9 December 2021, 18:00

Rimantas Jankauskas, MD, PhD, is a full professor at Department of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Since beginnings of his career, he was involved in paleopathology studies, and since 1990-ies in forensic anthropological investigations as well. He worked on identification of KGB victim graves (executed in 1944-1947), identification of historical personalities, mass grave of Napoleon’s soldiers (1812), identification of clandestine graves from uprisal in 1863-64, and trained a group of archaeologists well qualified for forensic field work.

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Rimantas Jankauskas