Img. ID: 445008
Memorial name
Monument to victims of the children's Aktion of March 17, 1944
Who is Commemorated?
Children of the Vilnius Ghetto
Description:
The monument is located near the cemetery’s fence. It is a rough stele to which a black marble round-headed plaque is attached. On the plaque’s head the traditional abbreviation “Here are buried” flanks a small Star of David. The plaque’s body is divided into two parts. The left one bears a long Hebrew inscription, while the right one features two words in Lithuanian, “Ghetto children.”
A small granite plaque with a donor’s inscription is placed on the back of the monument.
Inscriptions:
In Lithuanian:
Geto
vaikai
Translation: Ghetto children
In Hebrew:
פ"נ
כאן גנוז אוצר
נשמות של ילדי
גיטו ווילנא
שהובלו לטבח
ונרצחו הומתו
ונקברו במקום
זה בידי צוררי
ישראל הנאצים
הגרמנים
וגרוריהם בימי
סער וסופה
במלחמת העולם
השניה
על אלה אני
בוכיה [איכה א, טז]
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. [תהיה נשמתם צרורה בצרור החים]
על נפש עולליך [איכה ב, יט]
Translation: Here are buried. Here is hidden a hoard of souls of the children from the Vilnius Ghetto that were brought for massacre and murdered, killed, and buried in this place by the haters of Israel; German Nazis and their followers, in the days of gale and storm in the Second World War. “For these things I weep” [Lamentations 1:16]. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life. “for the lives of your children” [Lamentations 2:19].
On the back side:
In Hebrew:
נתרם ע"י משפחת
ישעיהו אפשטיין
תל אביב תשנ"א
In English:
Donated by Fam.
Shaya Epstein
Tel-Aviv 1991
Commissioned by
Family of Yeshayahu (Shaya) Epstein