The Kaunas Jewish Community marked the 75th anniversary of the mass murder of the Jews of Petrašiūnai and the Intellectuals Aktion at the Fourth Fort in Kaunas. Lithuanian ambassador for special assignments Dainius Junevičius, his wife, representatives from the Kaunas municipality, residents of Petrašiūnai who witnessed the mass murder and members of the Kaunas Jewish Community honored the Holocaust victims. Community chairman Gercas Žakas and Junevičius both spoke of the Holocaust as a shared tragedy for all citizens of Lithuania. Iseris Šreibergas, the chairman of the Kaunas Hassidic Religious Community and a member of the Kaunas Jewish Community board of directors, honored the memory of the dead with a prayer.