The Kaunas Jewish Community will hold a ceremony to commemorate the Jewish victims murdered during the barbaric Lietūkis garage incident in Kaunas in the early days of World War II this June 26 at 4:00 P.M. at the statue to the victims at Miško street no. 3, moving afterwards to the Slobodka Jewish cemetery on Kalnų street and then to the Žaliakalnis Jewish cemetery on the Radvilėnų highway.

The public torture and massacre of Jews in Kaunas on June 27, 1941, led infrastructure minister Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis of the universally unrecognized pro-Nazi Lithuanian Activist Front Provisional Government of Lithuania to call for an end to “public executions” of Jews “in broad daylight.” Lithuanian foreign minister Gabrielius Landsbergis is his great-grandson. The current Lithuanian defense minister Arvydas Anušauskas was formerly an historian who worked for Lithuania’s Orwellian genocide center and who did a special documentary which aired on Lithuanian state television about the Lietūkis garage incident in which he posited a conspiracy theory between the Soviets and the Nazis to blacken Lithuania’s reputation by simulating the whole event using photo montages and other techniques. The exact number of Jewish men tortured and murdered there isn’t known but is estimated at 50 dead.