The Panevėžys Jewish Community invites you to mark the Day of Remembrance of Lithuanian Jewish Victims of Genocide on September 23. The commemoration begins at 2″00 P.M. at the Sad Jewish Mother statue in Memory Square on Vasario 16 strret in Panevėžys.

The commemorative date was adopted by the Lithuanian parliament in 1994 based on the nominal date for the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto in 1943. The Panevėžys ghetto was liquidated in mid-August, 1941, meaning the 13,500 Jews there were murdered ib the immediate area.

Program:

2:00 P.M.Opening ceremony. Speeches, wreath laying at the Sad Jewish Mother statue in Memory Square on Vasario 16 strret in Panevėžys

2:40 P.M.Trip to mass murder site in Kurganova Forest outside town

3:00 P.M.Visiting mass murder site in Žalioji Forest

4:30 P.M.Screening of Yad Vashem Holocaust film at Community headquarters

Please indicate your intention to attend by calling 0 611 20882 or 0 610 17608.