On June 24, 1941, in Gargždai (two days after Germany's attack on the USSR), the first mass killing of Jews in Lithuania took place, with 201 people killed.

The exact date of the execution of Jewish women and children in Gargždai is unknown. It occurred in August or September 1941. Jewish women and children were captured on the same day as the Jewish men of Gargždai, June 23, 1941, by the same Gestapo soldiers, members of the Memel GPK under the command of Dr. Erich Frohwan. The executions took place in several locations.

In September 1941 (the exact day is unknown), Jewish women and children were killed in Veiviržėnai. The executioners were three Gestapo officers from the GPZ Baioren (Baiorai) and two to three Lithuanians. Among them were Gestapo officer Meissner and Lithuanian Prasiinskas.

In December 1944, the commission conducting the investigation at the murder site discovered four mass graves. The commission found the bodies of 510 victims (31 children, 94 teenagers, and 385 women). The children's bodies showed no gunshot wounds.

The USSR Operational Situation Report No. 14 dated July 6, 1941, states that 214 people were shot in Kretinga on that day. During the trial in Ulm at EK-Tilsit, it was revealed that of these 214 people, about 180 were Jews, and the rest were Lithuanian communists.

At the end of June 1941, an unknown number of Jews were killed near the town of Skaudvile. The executioners were German soldiers from the Gestapo or SD. In August 1941, 300 Jewish men were killed at the same location.

The first shootings of Jews in Skuodas began at the end of June 1941. Arrested Jews were driven out of the Skuodas Riflemen's Union building in groups and shot on the outskirts of the city along with Soviet activists and Soviet prisoners of war.

981 Jews, as well as Soviet officials, communists, and Komsomol members of various nationalities, were captured and shot in Rokiskis and its surroundings in the first weeks of Nazi occupation (from June 27 to August 14, 1941).

At the beginning of the war, men and women of Jewish nationality were systematically arrested in Kaunas and placed in two locations: in the central prison on A. Mickevičius Street and in the VII Fort. From June 29-30, 1941, Jewish men and women were transported to a place that SK 1b called a "Jewish concentration camp," and on the night of June 30, the shootings began.

The case of the "Letukis" garage is considered a symbol of the Holocaust in Lithuania and has gained wide recognition abroad.

The Šiauliai Ghetto (in Lithuanian Šiaulių getas, July 25, 1941 — July 24, 1944) was a Jewish ghetto, a place of forced resettlement of the Jews of the city of Šiauliai during the persecution and extermination of Jews by the Nazis and collaborators during the occupation of Lithuanian territory by Germany in the period of World War II.

The forest near the village of Kužiai gained tragic notoriety during World War II. Jews from the Šiauliai ghetto were shot there. In 1959, a monument was erected with donations from the residents of the city of Šiauliai.

In the middle of 1941, 356 Jews and several Komsomol activists were killed in Kretinga on the southern edge of the Jewish cemetery. In memory of the latter, a monument was erected at the execution site in 1954.

In July 1941, in Svedasai, according to one source, 245 were killed, and according to another, 386, most of them Jews.

On September 1, 1941, about 5,090 people were shot on the territory of the military base, including men, women, children, and patients of the local hospital. The mass killing took place from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The murder was carried out by about 10-15 Germans and 20-30 Lithuanian policemen. Three men from Karl Eger's unit killed 38 Jews who had fled the site of the mass murder.

Kupishkis, known in Yiddish as Kupishok or Kupishik, was home to 1,444 Jews before World War II. The Jewish population made up about 42% of the town's population. In the summer of 1941, all Jewish men, women, and children in the town were forced into an improvised ghetto and tortured for about two days, deprived of food and water, then on June 28, 1941, they were shot and buried in unmarked graves at the communal cemetery.

Isn't it a fact that some Lithuanians voluntarily participated in the murder of Jews? Instead of acknowledging this cruel fact and condemning the criminals, you look for excuses for them. Just because some Jews served in the NKVD, should their children have died? Weren't there Lithuanians and Russians in the NKVD as well? So, according to you, does that mean the heads of Lithuanian and Russian children should have been smashed with rifle butts for that? Wake up. Let's finally be a conscious people who condemn their scoundrels and are proud of their heroes.

On July 5th or 19th, 1941, the SS organized the second "Jewish Collection Action" (Judenbeschaffungsaktion). Its target was Žemaičių Naumiestis, located 14 km east of Heydekrug, and consequently one of the few towns in the northern border area where Jews had not yet been killed. All Jewish males aged 14 and older were ordered to enter the synagogue. There, they were met by SS men and Lithuanian police. All the men were loaded onto trucks and taken to the barracks east of the town. The shooters were Lithuanian policemen. On that day, at least 220 Jewish men were shot.

The Jewish cemetery was located a kilometer from the town. People walked in groups, mostly women, along this road of death, as if they wanted to say goodbye to their murdered neighbors. Behind the cemetery wall was a fairly large inner courtyard. There, in a heap about one and a half meters high, lay the twisted bodies of people in various positions. All the dead, including children, were dressed only in white underwear and were barefoot.

At this site in 1941, 3,500 civilians from the towns of Vilkiai, Veliuona, Seredžius, and Raudonė were killed.

There is very little historical information about this massacre. One of the versions related to the murders of Jews in Marijampolė are the executions on July 7, 18, and 25, 1941, listed in Eger’s report. During these mass killings in the Šunskas Forest, 32, 53, and 103 Jews could have been killed — a total of 188 people. The prisoner-of-war camp in the Marijampolė area was located in Kalvarija. Officers (from 1,000 to 5,000 people) were the first prisoners there. There is no information about the fate of these prisoners. Some of them could have been killed in this forest. There are three monuments here, one of which has been toppled.

Here in August 1941, the blood of approximately 1,650 Jews – children, women, and men – was shed when they were brutally killed by Hitler's executioners and their local collaborators.

Here the blood of Jewish children, women, men, and prisoners of war of Lithuanian and other nationalities was shed. They were brutally killed by Nazi executioners and their local collaborators in July-August 1941.

In the summer and autumn of 1941, Jewish men, women, and children were shot here.

Mass shootings by the Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators of the Jews of Vilnius, Soviet prisoners of war, and resistance fighters in the forest near the village of Ponary (also known as Upper Ponary) during World War II. It should be emphasized that among the victims of Ponary were fifteen thousand Poles, including, among others, the Vilnius intelligentsia, such as professors of the Stefan Batory University in Vilnius, as well as fighters of the Home Army:

Ukmerge – a small town halfway between Vilnius and Panevezys, can be a striking example of a well-preserved Jewish past. Almost the entire town center consists of former Jewish houses, shops, schools, and prayer houses. And yet, today there are exactly zero Jews living here. It is both surprising and paradoxical to walk through it, see its rich Jewish heritage, and realize that for 70 years there hasn’t been a single Jew here.

A total of 400 Jews from the Pakruojis district were killed in the Morkakalnis forest.

The Roll team, together with the white armband wearers of Utena, shot 3,782 Jews from Utena and Molėtai.

Here lie the remains of the children, women, and men of Vishtitis, who were brutally killed by Nazi murderers and their local collaborators in July-September 1941. The remains of the women and children were moved here in 1965.

From July 20 to 21, 1,200 to 1,500 Jewish men were killed in the Rainiai forest. Jews killed here were not only from Telšiai but also from other settlements. On September 1, young and able-bodied women were placed in the Telšiai ghetto, while the remaining women and children were killed. On December 24, during the liquidation of the ghetto in Rainiai, about 400 women were killed.

At the end of June - beginning of July 1941, Jewish residents from various places near Telšiai - including Nevarėnai and Ritavas, Varniai and Žarėnai - were deported to a collection camp on the outskirts of Višvenai.

On August 11, the head of the Babtai rural district informed the governor of Kaunas County that 93 Jews lived in the town. A few days later, following a secret order from Reivytis, 34 adult Jews were arrested and locked up in the city synagogue. Thirty Jews from Vandžiogala were also brought there. The Jews of Babtai and Vandžiogala were executed between August 28 and September 2, 1941. Most witnesses claimed that this was done in early September.

In Kuršėnai, the persecution of Jews began in July 1941. In the same month, by order of the Nazi authorities, a ghetto was established in Kuršėnai. Many Jews were housed in two synagogues. Around July 20, white armbanders and the police captured about 150 Jewish men (according to other sources, 168) from the synagogues and killed them in the Padarbos forest, approximately three kilometers from Kuršėnai.

Perpetrators of the murders – the Jurbarkas police and the Smalinė German border police. According to the Act on the relocation of the remains of Soviet citizens shot by the Germans of the Jurbarkas district executive committee in 1958, the remains of 909 people were found at this site, although officially it is still considered that 500 people were killed.

Most of the Jews of Linkuva earned their living through trade, small-scale industry, agriculture, or crafts. There were 16 Jewish farmers in this area. Fourteen of them lived in Dvariukai.

Evacuation of Polish Jews fleeing persecution after the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany to Japan and some other countries in the Far Eastern region through Lithuania and the USSR. One of the key roles in these events was played by the Dutch consul Jan Zwartendijk and the Japanese consul in Lithuania Chiune Sugihara. Most of the refugees who arrived in Japan were sent to Japanese-occupied Shanghai, where they stayed until the end of the war.

The Vilnius Ghetto was one of the Jewish ghettos established by the Nazis in Lithuania during World War II. During its two years of existence, its population, which numbered about 40,000 people, was almost completely annihilated. Only a few hundred inmates managed to escape by fleeing to the forests and joining Soviet partisans or hiding with sympathetic local residents.