The 84th anniversary of the mass murder of the Jews of Vilkomir (Ukmergė) in the Pivonija Forest jut outside the town was commemorated on the first Sunday in September, the traditional date selected for honoring these victims of the Holocaust.

The entire Jewish population of Vilkomir and surrounding villages was exterminated ruing three mass murder operations in 1941. A sole survivor hid in the forest and later told the tale to the world.

Pivonija is the third-largest Jewish mass murder site in Lithuania after Ponar and the Ninth Fort.

Ukmergė Jewish Community chairman Artūras Taicas spoke and Iseris Šreibergas from tje Kaunas Religious Jewish Community said kaddish. Panevėžus Jewish Community members including chairman Gennady Kofman, chairman Moishe Shapiro of the Švenčionys Jewish Community abd members of the Kaunas Jewish Community and Lithuanian Jewish Community members from Vilnius also attended. An official from the Israeli embassy attended, as did representatives of several other embassies.