Murder story of Kedainiai Jews in the Babėniai Forest

At the beginning of July 1941 the Lithuanians arrested more than 100 men and women from Kėdainiai, 94 of them Jews. Accused of being Communists, the arrestees were taken through the streets of Kėdainiai in only their underwear to the town of Babėniai, eight kilometers away, and were murdered there.

After the war about 125 bodies were discovered in a mass grave in that location.