Events to commemorate the victims of the Lietūkis garage massacre took place in Kaunas on the last, very hot weekend in June. Seventy-five years have passed since this atrocity. On June 24 we remembered and honored the victims of the mass murder before a monument set up at the site of pogrom by the Kaunas Jewish Community 10 years ago. A commemorative concert was held at the Kaunas State Philharmonic on June 26 with a special program by the male vocal artists Quorum. Members of the Kaunas Jewish Community were joined at the events by Kaunas residents and representatives of social organizations, the municipality and the Catholic Church. Raimundas Kaminskas and Julija Iskevičienė, representatives of the Kaunas section of Sąjūdis [Lithuanian independence movement] expressed sorrow, solidarity and the hope the brutality and the mass murders would never happen again. The priest Robertas Pukenis and deputy mayor of Kaunas Vasiliy Popov expressed the same sentiments. Scouts from the Kaunas area honored the victims with a Lithuanian folk song.

More than 50 Lithuanian Jews were tortured and murdered in public on June 27, 1941, in the garage area of the union of Lithuanian agricultural cooperatives called Lietūkis. First they were forced to collect horse manure in their hands. Later they were tortured and murdered by blows from crowbars and metal rods, and by the insertion of hoses with running water into their various orifices. Witnesses recall German soldiers look on as passive observers at the time, and some of them took photographs.