Skuodas Jewish Community Women and Children Holocaust Memorial Site at the foot of Alka Mountain
Memorial site

At the end of July 1941, Jewish women from Skuodas with their children (about 500) were driven on foot to the Dimitravas camp (41 km from Skuodas). Their column was accompanied by about 20 men from the Skuodas auxiliary police unit. About a week later (August 3, 1941), Edmundas Tyras arrived at the camp from Kaunas, who was appointed temporary head of the Dimitravas camp by order of the Ministry of the Interior.

On August 15, 1941, several dozen Skuodas auxiliary police arrived at the Dimitravas camp. In the evening, they went to the barracks and ordered the girls to stay, and the women and children to go out into the yard. Several large pits had already been dug 1.5 km from the camp, in the Yazdai forest, at the foot of Alka Hill. Women and children were driven to the pits in large groups, stripped naked, pushed into the pits and shot. About 20 men from the Skuodas auxiliary police unit and 4 local residents, volunteers from the surrounding villages, fired. The shooting was led by Mykolas Vitkus. After the execution, the pits were filled with the murderers themselves and peasants brought from the surrounding villages.

In December 1944, a Soviet commission investigating the massacre site excavated 4 graves. The commission found 510 bodies of the murdered (31 children, 94 teenagers, and 385 women). No gunshot wounds were found on the children's bodies.