80 years ago, the first mass killings in Lithuania took place in Gargždai. On 24 June 1941, Nazi Germany killed and buried over two hundred of the town’s Jews there. To commemorate the event, a memorial stone was installed in 1989 at the site of the massacre of Jews near Gargždai’s bus station.
The monument has an inscription in Lithuanian and Jewish languages: ‘In this place, in July 1941 the Nazis killed hundreds of Jews from the town of Gargždai and the surrounding area’.
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