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 may 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 may have been killed in this forest.
There are three monuments here, one of which is toppled.
“About 200 Jews’ blood was shed here. The Nazis killed them in 1941” (in Lithuanian and Yiddish);
“Fascist henchmen shot 1,700 Soviet people here in 1941” (in Lithuanian);
toppled with inscription:
“Fascist henchmen shot about 1,500 war participants and 200 civilians here from July 5 to 15, 1941” (in Lithuanian and Russian)
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