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Murder Story of Zapyškis Jews at the Zapyškis Jewish Cemetery Einsatzkommando officers executing Jewish farmers in Zapyškis , Lithuania, 1941 In mid-August 1941 Lithuanian policemen took 40 young Jewish men from the Zapyškis ghetto to a location close to the Jewish cemetery, where they were killed and buried in a common grave. 40 Jews arrived at the beis-midrash (house of study and prayer). When they arrived they found well-armed “partisans” [Lithuanian nationalists], who did not allow them to return home. They took all the Jews who had arrived and forced them into the beis-midrash. None of the Jews realized what was happening. They waited impatiently. Some “partisans” entered and ordered them to sing “Communist songs.” The Jews did not sing but were not too worried since the Lithuanian “partisans” they saw before them were people who had been their customers and who had helped them earn a living. The “partisans” then ordered the Jews to pray. The Jews did not obey. The Jews were then ...