Jewish Holocaust site in Šeduva, Pakuteniai Village
Memorial site

One of the three Holocaust sites of the Jews of Šeduva is located in Pakuteniai Forest (Radviliškis district), about eight kilometres south-east of Šeduva, on a gravel road.
In August 1941, 27 Jews were murdered here, including the  last rabbi of Šeduva, Mordechai David Henkin. In two other places, approximately 700 people were killed in Liaudiškiai Forest.                                                          On 25 June 1941, the Nazis occupied Šeduva, and at the beginning of July, the Jews of the town were forcibly evicted from their homes and driven to the neighbouring village of Pavartyčiai, where a ghetto was established. On 25–26 August, a small part of the captured were shot in Pakuteniai forest, and the rest – in Liaudiškiai Forest.
From 2014–2015, pursuant to the initiative of the Jewish Memorial Foundation of Šeduva, the sites of these murders were cleaned up and made accessible to visitors. The monument “Home of the Star of Light”, by sculptor Romas Kvintas, is erected on the site of the murder of the Jews of the village of Pakuteniai