Murder story of Leipalingis Jews at the Ejszyszki Jewish Cemetery

On September 21, 1941, the Lithuanian police transferred the Jews who had survived the first massacre in Leipalingis to the town of Olkieniki. From Olkieniki, they, along with the Jews of that town, were escorted to Ejszyszki. Many Jews were killed by the guards on the way. Upon arriving in Ejszyszki, the Jews of Leipalingis and Olkieniki, as well as those brought there from the townships of Deksznie and Salo, were held in cowsheds for 2-3 days, receiving neither food nor water. The Lithuanian guards of the cowsheds took away the Jews' valuables, good clothes, and boots, and abused them brutally. After their stay in the cowsheds, the Jews were transferred to a makeshift camp set up in the town's horse market. On September 26-27, men of the Einsatzkommando 3 and their Lithuanian collaborators took the inmates in batches – first the men, followed by the women and children – to a local cemetery and shot them there, near pits that had been dug in advance. According to the "Jäger Report," 3,446 Jews (989 men, 1,636 women, and 821 children) were murdered on those days.