Most likely the first burials took place even in the 18th century here. Data shows that in 1765–1766, 240–282 Jews were residing in the town; in 1868 their number reached 1151; in 1897 – around 2000.
In the northern part of the Cemetery, in 1999, a memorial was erected (authored by A. Janušonis) to honour the Holocaust victims, having inscriptions in Lithuanian and Hebrew languages: “In Memory of the Holocaust Victims. More than 50 female Jews from Butrimonys were murdered here in 1941”.
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