Obj. ID: 52877
Memorials Holocaust memorial near Krekenava, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
190 people, among them about 110 Jews from Krekenava murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site. It is a granite stele with a Star of David, a Yiddish inscription in the center, and a Lithuanian one underneath.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זעיירע ארטיקע באהעלפער
דעם VII 1941 דערמארדעט
200 בערך יידן –
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: In this place, / Hillerite murderers and / their local helpers, / in July 1941, murdered / about 200 Jews - / men, women, children.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitleriniai
galvažudžiai ir vietiniai
pagalbininkai 1941. VII. VIII.
nužudė apie 200 vaikų
moterų ir vyrų
Translation: At this place Hitler’s / butchers and their local / helpers in July and August 1941 / murdered about 200 children, / women, and men.
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
In July and August 1941, the white armbanders of Krekenava shot the Jewish residents of the town, about 60 children and 50 grown-ups. Along with Jews they also shot the so-called Communists and Soviet activists, all in all about 190 people.
The monument was erected in the early 1990s, by the Jewish Community of Lithuania.
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 137.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 134.