Obj. ID: 53322  Holocaust memorial in Kalnėnai Forest near Jurbarkas, Lithuania, 1990s

On July 21, 1941, 45 elderly male Jews were arrested. All 45 Jews were shot.
At the end of July 1941, police chief of Jurbarkas P. Mockevičius ordered to shoot three elderly men in the ghetto.
On August 1, 1941, the Nazis began an extermination operation against the elderly, women, children, and newborns. They spared younger, healthy Jewish women for labor. The police shot 105 women according to the Pinkas ha’Kehillot Lita encyclopedia.
In August there was another mass murder - the police took about 20 Jews, drove them 6 to 7 kilometers toward Smalininkai next to Kalnėnai village and killed there. A few days later they killed 12 more Jews.
On September 8, 1941, they shot the younger women who were able to work and the remaining children. They made the women line up and told them they were marching them to work. They killed them at the 7th-kilometer mark next to Kalnėnai.

A monument at the latter murder site was erected in the early 1990s by the Jewish Community of Lithuania. It is unknown whether there was a monument before, but in 1958 the exhumed bodies from the site were moved to the killing site memorial near Jurbarkas Jewish cemetery (see here).

On November 19, 2015, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 38957).