Murder story of Ukmergė Jews at the Ukmergė Russian Orthodox Cemetery

As the German army was entering Ukmergė, two soldiers were killed under unclear circumstances. The German command blamed their deaths on the Jews. On the next day, June 25, 1941, a group of Jewish intellectuals and professionals (rabbis, doctors, nurses, teachers, etc.), who may have numbered as many as seventy-nine, were killed by the Lithuanian police near the Russian Orthodox cemetery, in the southern part of the town.