Murder story of the Jews of Soleczniki Małe at the Lenkiškės Farm

The arrest of the Jews residing in Soleczniki Małe of the Jaszuny municipality by the Lithuanian police was carried out under the following circumstances: In August 1941, I, as the village elder, was ordered by the elder of the Jaszuny municipality to produce a list of all the Jews residing in Soleczniki Małe.… Following the order, I drew up a list of the Jews… for the municipality administration. The list, submitted to the German authorities, included twenty-four Jewish residents of Soleczniki Małe. About a month later, in mid-September, a car with four German-Lithuanian [sic] servicemen came for me in Soleczniki Małe. They, servicemen of the German punitive organs, asked me to show them the houses in Soleczniki Małe in which Jews resided. I showed them these houses. The servicemen put a sentry near each house and told all the Jews they found at home that, upon the orders of the German authorities, they were to arrest them and seize their property. In an hour, these servicemen arrested twenty Jews in Soleczniki Małe of the Jaszuny municipality and escorted them to Jaszuny. Among those who arrested and escorted the Jews were [Petras] Pigaga and [Antanas] Rugis, both of them policemen from Jaszuny.… For the escort, I provided them with three horse carts.… About a week after their arrest, the Jews of Soleczniki Małe were shot not far from the village of Goj.

During the German occupation, six Jewish families, residing at that time in the village of Soleczniki Małe, the Jaszuny municipality, were arrested.… Sometime in mid-September…, a group of ten armed policemen came to our village of Soleczniki Małe. A little later, the elder of the Soleczniki Małe commune, Antoni Jusewicz, accompanied by the policemen…, went through the village and pointed out the Jewish apartments. At this time, the policemen arrested the Jewish families and drove them to the central square of the Soleczniki Małe village.… Twenty Jews were arrested on this occasion, and they were then escorted by the police to the Jaszuny estate. I don't know the fate of these citizens, but people… said that, about ten days later, they had been shot by the Germans in a forest near the village of Goj.… Out of the Jews [of Soleczniki Małe], the following citizens were not arrested: Lemenman, I don't know his first name; Shenshil, I don't know his first name; [another person named] Shenshil, [and another person named] Lemenman. At the time of the arrest by the German-Lithuanian police, they happened not to be at home, and thus they were not arrested. All these Jews left for Poland in 1945.