JEWISH CEMETERIES OF MOLETAI AND MOLETAI DISTRICT
The Old Jewish Cemetery is located in Moletai. The cemetery is surrounded by a fence, and visitors are rarely seen in them, as it is the Jewish tradition. Apart from the graves of Holocaust victims, this is the only Jewish cemetery in the Moletai district.
The old Jewish cemetery is a special place. The tombstones in it are historical monuments. Each inscription and symbol that adorns the tombstones has a special meaning.
A bit further in Moletai, there is a Holocaust Memorial where on August 29, 1941 up to about 2,000 Jews have been killed and buried.
In 2016 that monument was built on the site of the Holocaust by Tzvi Kritzer, a descendant of Moletai Jews, and a memorial march was held for the victims of the Holocaust.
More than 2,600 and perhaps as many as 4,000 people attended a rally and walked the route along which 2,000 Jews were marched to their deaths 75 years ago.
The same words as in the Molėtai monument were also engraved on the monument in New York to the innocent murdered Jews of Molėtai.
In Moletai district; on August 7, 1941, during the execution organized by the Nazi German authorities about 30 men were killed and buried in the town of Giedraiciai.
This photo shows students reading holocaust victims' names in Kamarauciznos forest.
On July 24, 1941, in the first Joniskis Jew's massacre about 70 Jewish men were killed and buried.
On July 24, 1941, in the second Joniskis Jew's massacre about 85 Jewish women and children were killed and buried.
Jews were killed and buried in the town of Inturke in the summer of 1941 (number unknown).
Thanks for the help to the deputy director of the school, Viktorija Kazliene.
Photos used by Kostas Kajėnas and Alvydas Balanda.