Eighty-four years ago Jews from Palanga were murdered en masse in the Kunigiškiai Forest. Palanga Jewish Community chairman Vilius Gutmanas visited the mass murder site with Palanga city Culture Department staff Robertas Trautmanas and Janina Balužė Octpber 10.

One of the first casualties of the Nazi invasion of Palanga on June 22, 1941, was a summer camp there of Jewish children from all over Lithuania. Many of the children escaped, some were killed and others taken prisoner. On June 26 women, chilren and the elderly were imprisoned in one of the synagogues in Palanga. The latter were taken to a makeshift ghetto in Valteriškė village a few days later. The Jews there were murdered October 11 and 12, 1941. It is believed around 200 Jews from Palanga were murdered there and then.