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Murder story of Skaudvile Jews in the Pužai Forest
Murder Site
Pužai Area
Lithuania
On July 21, 1941, all the inhabitants of the village of Skaudvilė were ordered to assemble in the area where horses were kept. Following a German order, Lithuanian guards separated the Jews from the rest of the population. They then loaded all the Jewish men onto trucks and drove them to the Pužai Forest, 4 kilometers from the village. On the next day, they killed those men in the forest and buried their bodies at a site 1 kilometer from the Skaudvilė-Tauragė road.
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Written Testimonies
German Reports / Romanian Reports
The testimony of Ella Kagan, who was born in Skaudvilė in 1915:
On July 14, 1941, in compliance with a [German] order, all the inhabitants of the town had to gather in the horse market. There, the Jews were separated from the Christians, and the Jewish men – the healthy and the sick alike – were loaded onto trucks and driven 2 kilometers away to Pužai (the former post office). They were then shot in groups of 10-20, and their bodies were thrown into pits that had been dug near the road to Upyna, 3 kilometers from the town.
YVA M.1 / 1201
Pužai Area
forest
Murder Site
Lithuania
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