According to the International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes, a march will take place as part of the "Memory Path" towards the massacre place, followed by a commemoration ceremony.
Later on, an exhibition will be unveiled and a book by Arunas Bubnys, a member of the commission, will be presented.
The commemoration is one of the projects that are part of the series called "The Memory Path 1941-2021". Rolandas Racinskas, executive director of the commission, hopes all or at least the majority of massacre places will be visited this year.
"We hope all effort of people of goodwill be pooled for the organization of these meaningful and sensitive commemorations as their goal is to seek natural public understanding that the Holocaust was a great tragedy not only for Jews but for all of us as Lithuania lost its phenomenal intellectual, cultural, political and economic potential," Racinskas said.
Some 1,190 Jews lived in Prienai, based on the 1897 census, making 48 percent of the local population. In the middle of August of 1941 Jews were brought to Prienai from surrounding towns and then massacred on August 27, 1941.
Lithuania has more than 200 places where Jews were killed during the Holocaust.