28 June 1941

Units of Lithuanian partisans based in Kaunas were disarmed. The same day (June 28), the organization of the National Labour Protection Battalion (“Tautos darbo apsaugos batalionas”, further referred to as the TDA) was started in Kaunas. Together with the German Gestapo officers, the TDA battalion (mostly the 3rd company) began systematic mass killings of the Jews in Kaunas forts and the provinces.