According to eyewitness accounts, at the end of June 1941, 14 Soviet soldiers and 26 Soviet activists and communists were killed and buried near Lake Ilgis. From July 4 to 5, 1941, about 30 more men and women were killed and buried here, most of them Jews. The perpetrators of the massacre were Ignalina White Guards. In October 1944, those killed near Lake Ilgis were exhumed. Four graves were found and excavated, in which the bodies of 32 civilians and 25 soldiers were discovered.
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