ROKISHKIS (also Rakishik, Rakishki, Rakishok, Rakiszki, Rokishki, Rokishok), Lithuania.
Monument at the mass graves in the Iodupe forest near the town, where on 15-16 of August, 1941 several thousand Jews were murdered by the Nazis and Lithuanian police. The inscription in Russian, Lithuanian and Yiddish reads: Here found rest those killed by Lithuanian-German nationalists on 15-16 of August, 1941. Photo 1983.