On the night of 19/20 June 1944, a group of partisans from the 5th brigade of the Home Army requisitioned food for the unit at the Glinciszki estate. The estate was German property, Poles worked there, and the director was Wladyslaw Komar - a landowner from Kaunas Lithuania. While collecting food, a detachment of Lithuanian volunteers, popularly known as Shaulis, stationed in the town of Podbrzezie, entered the estate. A fight ensued, as a result of which the Lithuanians were repulsed. 4 of them were killed during the fight. The next day, a punitive Lithuanian expedition arrived in Glincisky: the houses of the estate workers were surrounded, the inhabitants were driven out, 38 defenceless people were shot. Among them were pregnant women, children (aged 3 to 18) and old people. The victims were temporarily buried in a common grave near the estate.

A few days later, the German police arrived at the scene of the massacre and, after an investigation, ordered the exhumation of the murdered. The corpses were placed in coffins and buried near the road to Podbrzezie, in the former cemetery of German soldiers from the First World War, who had been exhumed in the 20 years between the wars.

This cemetery has never been forgotten. Initially, it was temporarily commemorated by local people. In the 1980s, a boulder with a Russian inscription plaque was placed on it. Subsequently, the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites developed a concept for the new look of the cemetery, which was realised in 1999.

In the centre of the cemetery stood a black marble memorial with an image of Our Lady of the Dawn Gate, an inscription in Polish and Lithuanian and a list of names. A large concrete cross was placed above the plaques. Crosses also stand on the graves of all those murdered, on both sides of the main commemoration - there are 17 crosses on the left and 21 on the right. The whole area is surrounded by a fieldstone wall. At the front a metal fence was erected on concrete posts.

The inscription in Polish reads: "HERE REST THE POLISH INHABITANTS OF GLINCISZKI MURDERED ON 20 JUNE 1944 THEIR MEMORY THIS PLAQUE IS DEDICATED BY THEIR COMPATRIOTS".

Inscription in Lithuanian: "ČIA ILSISI LENKAIGYVENĘ GLITIŠKESENUŽUDYTI 1944 M. BIRŽELIO 20 D.PAGERBDAMI JU ATMINIMĄ AUKOJA TAUTIEČ IAI".