Obj. ID: 52731
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Troškūnai, Lithuania, ca. 1992
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Troškūnai, Lithuania
Memorial Name
Troškūnų žydų senųjų kapinių bei žydų žudynių vietos ir kapo kompleksas - Complex of Troškūnai Old Jewish Cemetery and the Jewish killing site.
Who is Commemorated?
About 15 Troškūnai Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated in the Jewish cemetery.
It is a granite stele of irregular shape with a Star of David, a Yiddish inscription in the center, and a Lithianian one underneath.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
אין 1941 געמארדעט
טראשקון יידן -
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: At this place, / Hitlerite murderers and / their local helpers, / in 1941, murdered / the Jews of Troškūnai, / men, women, children.
Lithuanian:
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
On July 10, 1941, local white armbanders killed 8 or 9 Jewish men on the premises of the local school. In mid-July local white armbanders shot 5 or 6 Jewish men at the Jewish cemetery.
A monument was erected in the early 1990s, by the Jewish Community of Lithuania.
On September 27, 1996, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 20715).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 243.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/C3EDC696-DC13-47C1-813C-5369BD2DB819., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 81.