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The Shoah (1939–1945)

Massacre of Utena and Molėtai

29 août 1941·Utena et Molėtai

Toll
~3 800 morts

The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.

The two neighbouring communities are annihilated on the same day by the mobile unit; the path leading from the town to the pit is today marked with stones bearing the names of families.

Utena and Molėtai, two neighboring small towns in northeastern Lithuania, are annihilated on the same day by the same mobile detachment. The Jewish inhabitants, held for weeks in barns, are led on foot to the pits dug at the outskirts of the towns. The path leading from Molėtai to the execution site is today marked by stones bearing family names.

Period :
The Shoah (1939–1945)
Type :
Shoah
Region :
Central and Eastern Europe
Country :
Lituanie
Sources

Le rapport Jäger ; Yitzhak Arad, *The Holocaust in the Soviet Union*.

At the same place

The catalogue holds no other event at Utena et Molėtai.

In the same country50

  1. 1347Riot against the communityinconnu
  2. 1387Lithuania receives baptism; Jews lose their former privilegestoll not established
  3. 1495Expulsion from the Grand Duchytoll not established
  4. 1573Riot against the communityinconnu
  5. 1589Riot against the communityinconnu
  6. 1655Taking of the City by Muscovite Armiesmilliers
  7. 1900Accusation of ritual murderinconnu
  8. avril 1919Pogrom during the city's capture by the Polish army~65

And 42 more in the catalogue.

Event 1564 of 2483, in chronological order · The Shoah (1939–1945): 915 events in the catalogue