The Švenčionėliai massacre was the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust on October 8-10 1941, at the former Soviet military training ground in Žeimena forest, about 1.5km away from Švenčionėliai in Lithuania, then known as the Generalbezirk Litauen in the Reichskommissariat Ostland.
According to German records, 3,726 Jews were murdered on October 9.
The total estimated number of the murdered Jews was between 7,000 and 8,000.
The murder was perpetrated by Nazi Germany authorities, officers of the Švenčionys county police and the local Hilfspolizei[1] [2][3] In 1961 a monument to the victims was erected at the site, reconstructed in 1993.
[1] The site is protected by the state as a cultural monument of historical and memorial value.