Plungė massacre

The living conditions (filth, overcrowding, lack of food and water) in the ghetto led to high mortality and disease, particularly so among the elderly.

Survivors included people deported to the Soviet Union prior to the German invasion,[1] and six who were sheltered by Lithuanian friends.

[5] Catholic priest Petras Lygnugaris baptized 74 young Jewish girls in an effort to spare them, but the Lithuanian activists killed them there, notwithstanding.

[6][dead link‍][2] Plungė was perhaps the first town in German-occupied Europe where all of the Jewish inhabitants were murdered, including children, women and the elderly.

[7][8] Bunka created massive wooden sculptures commemorating the massacres in Plunge and other sites as well as the life of the Jewish community.