The Untold Stories. The Murder Sites of the Jews in the Occupied Territories of the Former USSR

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Community:

Rokiskis

Murder Sites:

The Velniaduobe Woods

The Antanase Forest

Commemoration:

Commemoration of Jewish Victims

The Antanase Forest

Monument at the Antanase Forest murder site
YVA, Photo Collection 4043

On August 25, 1941, Jewish women as well as children under the age of eight, who previously had been driven out of Rokiskis to the village of Antanase, were taken to pits in the Antanase Forest, along with Jews from the Lithuanian towns of Obeliai, Pandelis, Panemunelis, Suvainiskis and Kamajai. There they were all shot. Karl Jaeger, head of Einsatzkommando 3a that carried out the execution, reported that a total of 1,160 Jews – 112 men, 627 women and 421 children – were killed in the vicinity of Obeliai that day.

Related Resources

German reports

ChGK Soviet Reports