On October 3 a ceremony was held in the Švenčionys city park to mark the anniversary of the onset of the mass murder of Jews in the region in the first week of October, 1941. In total over the course of the Holocaust approximately 8,000 Jews from the city and surround district were murdered.

Kristina Sizonova moderated the event. Speakers at the ceremony included Lithuanian Jewish Community executive board member Ela Gurina who is the chairwoman of the Holocaust Victims Commission, Švenčionys Jewish Community chairman Moshe Shapiro, Sholem Aleichem ORT Gymnasium principal Ruth Reches, Polish ambassador to Lithuania Urszula Doroszewska, deputy mayor of the Švenčionys district Violeta Čepukova, Pabradė’s Rytas Gymnasium history teacher Danguolė Grincevičienė and others.

Sholem Aleichem students read poetry in Lithuanian and Hebrew and Choral Synagogue cantor Shmuel Yaatom delivered a prayer. LJC executive director Michail Segal and other local residents and visitors also participated, and a quintet from the Culture Center of the city of Pabradė directed by Bronislavas Vilimas performed. Chairman Moshe Shapiro thanked the speakers and all those attending, as well as staff from the local Nalšia Museum, the Pabradė Culture Center, the Švenčionėliai Culture Center and others for making the event possible, and also thanked Velga Vilnius general director Jozefas Federovič for financial support for the event, among other institutional supporters.