According to eyewitness accounts, on one of the last days of June 1941 the anti-Soviet Lithuanian partisans (the so-called "white armbanders") rounded up the "richest Jews" of Užpaliai, as many as ten men. On the pretext of sending them to work in Svėdasai, west of Užpaliai, the partisans took them to the village of Butiškiai, two kilometers northwest of Užpaliai, and shot them all at the edge of the Kaimynai Forest.

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