Ursuline nuns, were spared. Only the estate's administrator, Edward Żywiecki, was severely beaten. According to some witnesses, the torturers were influenced by the attitude of the Dutch agricultural instructor. Jonas Žvinys, a Lithuanian parish priest from Dubingiai circumstantially passing by on his way to Vilnius, said a prayer for the dead. Lithuanian police officers brought about eight men from the village and ordered them to dig a mass grave. By their side they killed two wounded victims: Józef Klukowski and Wanda Bałendówna. After the massacre, the policemen took the belongings of the killed families and the school building. After they had left the location of the massacre, the local population fled into the woods, where they hid for the next few days. Some of the local youths joined the Polish partisans. Soon Poles erected a cross on the spot where the bodies were buried, but after three days Lithuanians ordered it to be removed. , a known member of AK and the administrator of a group of manors as a representative of the occupational German land management company , arrived at the scene around 2 pm, a few hours after the massacre and decided to return to Vilnius immediately. He was stopped by Lithuanian policemen on the way in Paberžė and was ordered to be shot, but was pierced with bayonets and bludgeoned to death with rifle butts while trying to run away. His corpse was robbed and his finger with a gold ring was cut off. Jozef Koneczny, who informed policemen of the estate's robbery, also fell victim to the Lithuanian police. Detained as a suspect in Paberžė, he was tortured and then shot. The bodies of both men were buried in Glitiškės. Aftermath At the widow's request, Władysław Komar's body was exhumed and buried in a family grave in Vilnius on June 24, 1944. On June 26, the remaining victims were exhumed by Lithuanian policemen from the 3rd Company of the 258th Battalion, the same who had massacred them. The bodies were buried in a nearby German war cemetery from 1915. Following the massacre on 21 June, Lieutenant Petras Polekauskas and 11 Lithuanian soldiers were arrested by the Germans, due to the execution of Władysław Komar. They were tried by the SS Court; Polekauskas received a death sentence, several others received sentences of hard labor, and a few were acquitted. They were all released afterwards. Polekauskas emigrated to