Holocaust Commemoration in Krakės in Central Lithuania

Holocaust Commemoration in Krakės in Central Lithuania

Krakės, a small town in the Kėdainiai district in central Lithuania, marked the 80th anniversary of the onset of the Holocaust there on September 2. On that date in 1941 about 1,125 Jews from Krakės and the surrounding settlements Gudžiūnai, Pociūnėliai, Baisiogala, Grinkiškis and Dotnuva were murdered at Peštiniukai village near Krakės.

The commemoration included a march with local high school students and the reading of the names of the victims at the mass murder and mas grave site in Peštiniukai village.