Obj. ID: 45578
Jewish Funerary Art Memorial to the teachers of the Vilnius Ghetto in the Third (Šeškinė) Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius, 1992
Who is Commemorated?
Teachers who perished in the Vilnius ghetto.
Description:
The monument is located in the first row of graves of the people who died in the Vilnius Ghetto, near the central pathway of the cemetery.
The original monument, erected in 1992, contained two granite slabs in the form of a torn book. Two marble plaques with Yiddish and Lithuanian inscriptions were placed in front of the slabs. (See a photograph in Levinson 1997, 91).
In 2015 the monument was modified and the inscriptions changed. At the time of this writing (2022) both slabs are lying one next to the other, still in the form of a book, and a single plaque with Yiddish and Lithuanian inscriptions is situated above them.
Inscriptions:
Original inscriptions of 1992:
In Lithuanian:
Žydų mokytojams
žuvusiems
Vilniaus gete
1941 – 1944
Translation: To Jewish teachers who perished in the Vilnius Ghetto, 1941 – 1944.
In Yiddish:
צום אנדענק פאר
די יידישע לערער,
וועלכע זיינען
אומגעקומין אין
ווילנער געטא
Translation: In memory of the Jewish teachers, who perished in the Vilnius Ghetto.
Inscriptions made in 2015:
In Yiddish:
צום אייביקען אָנדענק
פון די אומגעקומענע לערער
פון ווילנער געטאָ
Translation: For eternal memory / of the perished teachers / of the Vilnius Ghetto.
In Lithuanian:
Amžinam Vilniaus gete
žuvusių mokyktojų atminimui
Translation: In eternal memory of the teachers / who perished in Vilnius Ghetto.
Commissioned by
The State Jewish Museum, funded by Vilnius Jewish businessmen (Guzenberg 2013, 69).
sub-set tree:
height above the ground - 55 cm
The monument was erected on the initiative of the State Jewish Museum and funded by Jewish businessmen of Vilnius. It was unveiled on October 2, 1992.
In 2015, the monument was modified on the initiative of the Lithuanian Jewish Community and financed by it.
Agranovskii, Genrikh and Irina Guzenberg. Vilnius: Po sledam Litovskogo Ierusalima. Pamiatnye mesta ereiskoi istorii i kul’tury, 2nd ed. (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 2016)., 688.
Guzenberg, Irina, Vilnius: Traces of the Jewish Jerusalem of Lithuania. Memorable Sites of Jewish History and Culture. A Guidebook (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2021)., 704.
Guzenberg, Irina. Vilnius: Pamiatnye mesta evreiskoi istorii i kul'tury (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2013)., 69.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., 51.