of war, the village fell under Soviet occupation, and later, together with the whole Vilnius region, was handed over to Lithuania. A period of persecution of the Polish population and removal of the Polish language from the public sphere began. Józef Koneczny, the headmaster of the school in Paberžė, and his wife Ludmiła, who was teaching there, were dismissed from the school and settled in Glitiškės. During the Nazi occupation, the Glitiškės Manor was administrated by Edward Żywiecki, on behalf of , a company administering nationalised agricultural estates in Ostland's territory. The village was dominated by Poles, many of whom were members or supporters of the Polish underground. Partisans of the Home Army often used the farm to get supplies. Polish ambush The Polish partisans decided to organize an ambush on the Lithuanian auxiliary policemen, whose company was dislocated in Paberžė. On 20 June 1944, around 3:30 AM, a unit of Polish partisans, pretending to be Russian-speaking bandits, robbed the estate of several cattle. The estate manager notified the police company in Paberžė, away from Glitiškės, about the incident. Lieutenant Petras Polekauskas, commander of 258th Lithuanian Police Battalion's 3rd Company, decided to send a group of 8-9 to Glitiškės in order to investigate the incident. The scouts ran into the Home Army 5th Wilno Brigade, under the command of "Rakoczy" and Antoni Rymsza "Maks": four of them were killed, two were injured, and two escaped. According to information published by a bulletin of the Lithuanian Liberation Army, the four dead Lithuanians were first injured and then killed by stabbing with bayonets. Massacre Within hours, a company of about 50 men from the 258th Battalion arrived to Glitiškės. Polish partisans were no longer there. Upon arrival to Glitiškės, the Lithuanian policemen collected the dead. Then, Polekauskas ordered to gather the manor's workers, which were mainly people living near the manor (the so-called Glitiškės Annex and the () village), as well as some random people. In total, a group of 40 people were gathered near the manor. They were interrogated by Lithuanian policemen, who demanded information in Lithuanian about the direction of the Polish unit's departure. Only Władysław Klukowski answered this question in Lithuanian, thanks to which he was spared, the others were shot. Józef Balendo, who was wounded in the hand and covered with other bodies, survived. The residents of the manor itself, which included several families and a group of