Dimitravas forced labour camp

Dimitravas forced labour camp (Lithuanian: Dimitravo priverčiamojo darbo stovykla) was a forced labor camp established by the authoritarian regime of President Antanas Smetona in 1937 at the former estate of counts Zubov in the village of Dimitravas in the present-day Kretinga District Municipality, Lithuania. It was used to hold criminal and political prisoners who worked on breaking stones. Many prominent Lithuanian communist passed through the camp.

The camp was closed after the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in June 1940 but reopened when Lithuania was occupied by the Germans a year later. In July–August 1941, it held about 500 Jewish women and children from Skuodas who were executed in a nearby forest. Later it held mainly communist activists and farmers who were either unwilling or unable to pay the taxes or requisitions. According to Soviet sources, 1,770 prisoners were executed at the camp. In July 1944, prisoners organized a revolt and a mass escape, but the camp continued to operate until it was liberated by the Red Army in October 1944.