Bazilionai | Šiauliai

Execution of Jews in Bazilionai

1 Killing site(s)

Kind of place before:: Forest
Memorials:: No
Period of occupation:: 1941-1944
Number of victims:: 4

Witness interview

Eugenija S.: "Lithuanian partisans registered all the Jews and arrested them in their homes. Everybody knew each other, they knew how many children Jews had had, they couldn’t hide.
Y.U.: What happened to all the Jewish furniture and the victims’ other belongings?
Eugenija: "They just left it behind. Other people moved into their houses. Some valuables were sold in the barn. In one of the homes they set up the office of local administration. There was a barn in the village and they took the Jewish valuables there and sold them. It took about a month to sell it all. Local administration officers might have taken some of the belongings." (Eyewitness n°30 of an execution of one Jewish family, met in Bazilionai, on December 02, 2013)

Historical note

Bazilionai is a village in Šiauliai County in northern-central Lithuania.

Holocaust by bullets in figures

There is no information available about the shootings in Bazilionai. In general, it is known that arrests and mass murders of the Jews started right after the German occupation in June 1941. The executions were carried out by Germans and Lithuanian white armbanders.

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