As on every first Sunday in October, people will gather to commemorate those who were incarcerated in the ghetto and murdered during the Holocaust in the Švenčionys region in southwest Lithuania. The gathering takes place at the city park where the ghetto once operated, and at the mass grave in Platumai village in the Švenčionėliai aldermansjip at what is generally called the polygon. You are invited to attend at 11:00 A.M. on Sunday, October 5.

Program:

11:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Commemoration of victims at the Menorah statue in the city park;

12:30 P.M. Commemoration at the monument to the victims at the mass murder site in Platumai village.

Moshe Shapiro, chairman
Švenčionys Regional Jewish Community