The tradition of honoring the memory of the Jews of Schwenchenkis, who died during the Holocaust, on the first Sunday of October, has existed for many years.

This year the ambassador of the State of Israel Amir Maimon, the mayor of the Shvenchensk district Rimantas Klipcius, the chairman of the Lithuanian Jewish community Faina Kuklyansky, the members of the Shvenchensk municipality, the Jewish community, the community of the town took part in the memorable event.

Flowers in the city park, a monument to the victims of the Holocaust "Menorah", candles were lit. Participants of the memorial ceremony remembered the tragic fate of the prisoners of the Shvenchen ghetto. A mass meeting took place at the place of mass execution in the village of Platumai in the Shvenchensk district.

The leader of the Jewish community of Lithuania F. Kuklyansky stressed in her speech that "it is pointless to talk about the Second World War on the site of such tragedies, what happened here is not a war, but a terrible crime, banditry, whose justification is not and can not be" .

The cantor of Vilnius Choral Synagogue Shmuel Yatom performed the "Caddish".