Stojaciszki

The village of Stojaciszki was founded in 1855, during a period of liberal reforms in Russia, as a Jewish agricultural colony. That year, ten Jewish families were settled in this area, and they were joined by five more families two years later. However, in 1866 there were only thirteen Jewish families remaining in the colony, and only nine of them actually practiced agriculture. In 1898, there were forty-two Jewish families, or 262 Jewish "souls", in Stojaciszki. After World War I and the Polish-Lithuanian War of 1922, Stojaciszki became part of Poland.

In September 1939, World War II began, and Stojaciszki was occupied by the Soviets. In 1940, when the Soviet Union annexed Lithuania, Stojaciszki was allotted to the "Lithuanian Soviet Republic." In June 1941, on the eve of the Soviet-German War, there were about 350 Jews in the village. The Germans occupied Stojaciszki in late June, several days after their invasion of the Soviet Union. In September 1941, the 300 remaining Jews of Stojaciszki were transferred to the nearby township of Hoduciszki, four kilometers southeast of Stojaciszki, where they shared the fate of the local Jews: In late September, the two groups were taken to the so-called "Poligon" near Nowe Święciany and killed there.

Stojaciszki was liberated by the Red Army in July 1944. Seven Jews from the village survived the war.