Pirčiupiai

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Pirčiupiai is a village near Valkininkai in the Varėna district in the Alytus district in the Dzūkija region in Lithuania 45 km southwest of Vilnius with 75 inhabitants (2011). The place has been known since the 16th century as a hunting ground for the Lithuanian grand dukes .

Pirčiupiai became particularly famous through the Pirčiupiai massacre in 1944.

The Pirčiupiai massacre

On the morning of June 3, 1944, the motorcade of a staff unit of the German Wehrmacht on the road from Vilnius to Eišiškės in the forest about 2 km south of Pirčiupiai was attacked by pro Soviet partisans . Five members of the Wehrmacht were killed and the same number captured. 11 hours later a column of 400 men in around 20 vehicles and 3 tanks came to Pirčiupiai and surrounded the village. The residents were taken out of the houses and everything usable from the houses was loaded onto the vehicles. The men were locked in a house, which was then set on fire. The women and children were also locked up and burned. In the three-hour action, 119 residents were burned, including 49 children under the age of 15. Few people in the forest outside the village observed the event and reported later.

Envelope with Gediminas Jokūboni's statue of the mother (Post of the USSR 1969)

1960 created there sculptor Gediminas Jokūbonis there a memorial to the granite - Statue of Mother in the center and a granite wall with the names of the victims. In 1963 Jokūbonis was awarded the Lenin Prize of the USSR for this. There was a museum in the rebuilt village of Pirčiupiai, which was closed after the dissolution of the USSR.

The film Faktas ( The fact ) about the annihilation of Pirčiupiai was shown at the Cannes International Film Festival in 1981 (with Regimantas Adomaitis , Donatas Banionis , Alexander Kaidanowski ).

References and footnotes

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  2. ^ Sigitas Sinkevičius: Pirčiupiai: a factual report . Mintis, Vilnius 1976.
  3. ↑ Martin Schulze Wessel, Irene Götz , Ekaterina Makhotina (eds.): Vilnius: History and memory of a city between cultures . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt / New York 2010, ISBN 978-3-593-39308-7 , pp. 93, 179 .
  4. ↑ Ekaterina Makhotina: Memories of the War - War of Memories: Lithuania and the Second World War . 1st edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-30090-9 , pp. 153 .
  5. ↑ a b c d German Historical Museum Berlin : Lithuania: The Resistance and Suffering (accessed on December 23, 2016).
  6. ↑ Петр Никитович Кузьменко: Огненный ветер Славы . Патриот, Moscow 2005, p. 427 .
  7. ↑ Sergeĭ Timofeevich Konenkov, Marie Turbow Lampard, John E. Bowlt, Wendy R. Salmond: The Uncommon Vision of Sergei Konenkov . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2001, pp. 223 .
  8. ↑ Fact. accessed on December 29, 2016.
  9. ↑ fact. accessed on December 29, 2016.