Murder story of Užpaliai Jews in the Rašė Forest

On August 28, 1941, the remaining 300 Jews of Užpaliai were transferred to Utena. On the next day, August 29, Rollkommando Hamann, reinforced by the German Security Police and assisted by the Lithuanian "white armbanders", killed 3,782 Jews from Utena and the surrounding towns and villages, including Užpaliai, in the Rašė Forest, some two kilometers north of Utena, a little to the west of the village of Rašė.