Antanase Forest
On August 25, 1941, Jewish women as well as children under the age of eight, who previously had been driven out of Rokiskis to the village of Antanase, were taken to pits in the Antanase Forest, along with Jews from the Lithuanian towns of Obeliai, Pandelis, Panemunelis, Suvainiskis and Kamajai. There they were all shot. Karl Jaeger, head of Einsatzkommando 3a that carried out the execution, reported that a total of 1,160 Jews – 112 men, 627 women and 421 children – were killed in the vicinity of Obeliai that day.
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Velniaduobe Woods
On August 15-16, 1941, the Jewish men from Rokiškis were taken away from the local ghetto, located on the estate of Count Psreredecki. They were brought to a forest known as the Velniaduobe Woods, five kilometers from Rokiškis near the village of Bajorai, and shot in seven three-meter-deep pits some 400 meters from the right side of the road leading to Juodupe. Lithuanian auxiliary police, along with local nationalists under the command of Karl Jaeger, head of Einsatzkommando 3a, carried out the murder. According to Jaeger’s report, 3,207 Jews from Rokiškis County were murdered there.
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