Jewish Holocaust site in Šeduva, Pakuteniai Village
Memorial site

In Pakuteniy forest (Radviliški district), about 8 km southeast of Šeduva, next to a gravel road, there is one of the 3 sites of the Jewish Holocaust in Šeduva.

In this place in 1941 in August, 27 Jews were killed, including the last rabbi of Sheduva, Mordechai David Henkin. Meanwhile, around 700 more people were killed in two other places in the People's Forest.

After the Nazis occupied Šeduva on June 25, 1941, the town's Jews were forcibly evicted from their homes in early July and driven to the neighboring village of Pavartyčiai, where a ghetto was established. On August 25-26, a small part of them were shot in Pakutenii, the rest in Liaudiškii forest.

2014-2015 On the initiative of the Šeduva Jewish Memorial Fund, the places of the massacres were cleaned up and made accessible for visitors. On the site of the massacre of the Jews of Pakuteniy, the monument "Swiesas žvaigdas bveinė" by the sculptor Romo Quintus has been installed.