Pužai Forest
On July 21, 1941, all the inhabitants of the village of Skaudvilė were ordered to assemble in the area where horses were kept. Following a German order, Lithuanian guards separated the Jews from the rest of the population. They then loaded all the Jewish men onto trucks and drove them to the Pužai Forest, 4 kilometers from the village. On the next day, they killed those men in the forest and buried their bodies at a site 1 kilometer from the Skaudvilė-Tauragė road.
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Griblaukiai Forest
After the Jewish men had been taken away, their families – approximately 800 women, elderly people, and children, all of them residents of Skaudvilė – were taken to the train station in the village of Batakiai. On September 15, 1941, they were transported to the Griblaukiai Forest, 22 kilometers northeast of Tauragė, and exterminated almost completely. A few Jews managed to escape this massacre, and were saved by local farmers who hid them.
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