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Siline Forest

At the end of September 1941, some 200 Jewish residents of Jurbarkas, the last group of survivors, were shot in the Siline Forest, one kilometer west of Jurbarkas.

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Kalnenai Forest

On August 1, 1941, Einsatzkommando 3a, headed by Karl Jaeger, brought 105 Jewish women and children from Jurbarkas to a forest at the seventh kilometer on the Jurbarkas-Smalininkai road, near the village of Kalnenai, and shot them with the assistance of Lithuanian policemen. On September 8, 1941, 520 Jews, mostly younger working women and children who had been hidden, were driven out to the same forest and murdered. A few managed to escape.

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Jurbarkas Jewish Cemetery

On July 3, 1941, a group of Gestapo men arrived in Jurbarkas and, together with local policemen, rounded up 322 Jewish men, driving them out of their houses to an empty shed. Thirty Jewish men were collected and taken to dig pits in the local Jewish cemetery, where the rest of the Jews, along with several dozen suspected Soviet activists, were taken and later murdered. Before the shooting operation was carried out, the German and Lithuanian executers ordered the condemned to camouflage the site with tree branches.

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