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Lithuanians and a Soviet officer stand among the remains of twenty Jewish atrocity victims, who were exhumed from a mass grave in the woods near Utena.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 26951
Lithuanians and a Soviet officer stand among the remains of twenty Jewish atrocity victims, who were exhumed from a mass grave in the woods near Utena.

Lithuanians and a Soviet officer stand among the remains of twenty Jewish atrocity victims, who were exhumed from a mass grave in the woods near Utena.

Date
After 1944
Locale
Utena, [Kaunas] Lithuania
Variant Locale
Uciana
Uedainiai
Utian
Utien
Utsjany
Utsyany
Utyan
Utyana
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Lithuania
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Lia Chait

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Event History
According to the postwar testimony of a Lithuanian eyewitness, in 1941-42 twenty young Jewish men were rounded-up for road construction work near Utena. When they arrived at the work site they were shot by Lithuanian police and buried in the woods in a common grave. The bodies were not recovered until the eyewitness revealed his story to his confessor on his deathbed. The priest then informed the authorities who located the grave.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005444.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Lia Chait
 
Record last modified: 2001-12-11 00:00:00
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