Monument at the Antanase Forest murder site
YVA, Photo Collection, 4043/26
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Murder Story of Rokiskis Jews in the Antanase Forest
Murder Site
Antanase
Lithuania
On August 25, 1941, Jewish women as well as children under the age of eight, who previously had been driven out of Rokiskis to the village of Antanase, were taken to pits in the Antanase Forest, along with Jews from the Lithuanian towns of Obeliai, Pandelis, Panemunelis, Suvainiskis and Kamajai. There they were all shot. Karl Jaeger, head of Einsatzkommando 3a that carried out the execution, reported that a total of 1,160 Jews – 112 men, 627 women and 421 children – were killed in the vicinity of Obeliai that day.
Related Resources
German Reports / Romanian Reports
ChGK Soviet Reports
Report of Einsatzkommando 3a regarding its murder operation in Rokiskis, 1941
... Operations (Aktionen) were carried out by the Sonderkommando of Einsatzkommando 3a, together with a Lithuanian unit, in the districts of Raseiniai, Rokiskis, Zarasai, Porsci [sic] and Prienai. All these districts are now free of Jews (judenfrei). With these executions, the number of people liquidated by Einsatzkommando 3a and Lithuanian partisans has risen to 45,592. The total number of executions is approximately 85,000 ...
Mallmann, Klaus-Michael. Die "Ereignismeldungen UdSSR" 1941 : Dokumente der Einsatzgruppen in der Sowietunion . Darmstadt : Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2011, p. 494.
Antanase
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Murder Site
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Monument at the Antanase Forest murder site
YVA, Photo Collection, 4043/26