The Jewish women and children who remained in Viduklė were forced into a synagogue and four nearby houses that formed a ghetto of sorts and were made to carry out cleaning work. On August 22, 1941, they were all taken by Lithuanians to the local Jewish cemetery, where they were murdered and buried in a mass grave. A Lithuanian woman who lived nearby testified that the Jewish women had been forced to undress and the children had been thrown alive into the grave. According to Soviet reports about 100 bodies of women and children were found in a mass grave in the Jewish cemetery.

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In July 1941 the German authorities ordered all the Jewish males from Viduklė age 14 and older to appear at the building of the local council. All of them, except the old ones, were taken under heavy guard toward the local railway station and forced to stay in the house of Yakov Fridman or near the threshing floor in the yard. Jewish males from the village of Nemakščiai were also taken to the same place, where they suffered serious abuse from the Lithuanian guards. On July 24, 1941, the old people were taken there too and, then, all of them were taken to a nearby lake on the pretext that they were going to bathe there. When they came out of the water naked, they were taken in groups of ten to nearby pits that had been prepared ahead of time. They were shot and buried there. According to Soviet sources a common grave with approximately 200 male bodies was discovered next to the Viduklė railway station, 100 meters from the road, on the right side.

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