Pirčiupiai is a village in Valkininkų [lt] (Valkininkai) eldership, Varėna district municipality, Alytus County, Dzūkija region, Lithuania.

[3] The village is known since 16th century, when the grand dukes of Lithuania used it as hunting grounds.

[citation needed] On the morning of June 3, 1944, near Pirčiupiai, Soviet partisans placed mines in the path of two trucks carrying SS men, then fired on the survivors.

On that day 119 people (including 49 children under age of 16) were killed and only 9 escaped from the Pirčiupiai massacre.

Its author Gediminas Jokūbonis [lt] was awarded the Lenin Prize for it in 1963.