Vilnius, August 30, BNS–Lithuanian prime minister Algirdas Butkevičius Tuesday commemorated Lithuanian Holocaust victims at the Pakuteniai and Liaudiškiai mass murder sites and at the old Jewish cemetery in Šeduva, where kaddish was said for the dead.

“The Holocaust is our shared agony, our tragedy. It is our obligation that in the future never again would our human nature face such danger,” the prime minister was quoted in a Government press release. The PM said unfading memory is a duty to the dead and those who suffered.

The prime minister thanked the organizer, the Šeduva Jewish Memorial Foundation, and its representatives, who are conducting the Lost Shtetl project to commemorate Jewish life in Šeduva and the mass murder of that community in the forests near the town.

The Government’s internet site features photographs from the commemoration:
http://ministraspirmininkas.lrv.lt/lt/naujienos/premjeras-seduvoje-pagerbe-holokausto-auku-atminima