Obj. ID: 52878
Memorials Ghetto memorial in Panevežys, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Geto vartai - Gates of the Ghetto
Who is Commemorated?
Victims of the Panevėžys Ghetto
Description:
The monument is situated in the central part of Panevėžys, at the crossing of Klaipėda and Krekenava Streets.
The monument is made in the form of a gate: two higher granite posts represent a gateway and two lower granite slabs represent the walls. Identical Lithuanian and Yiddish inscriptions appear on the "walls." A lying stele with the map of the Panevežys ghetto and a Star of David is placed in front of the "gate."
Inscriptions
Yiddish:
אויף דעם טעריטאריע
איז פון VII.7 ביזן VIII.17
1941 געווען די
יידישע געטא
Translation: On this territory, / from July 7 to August 17, / 1941, was / a Jewish ghetto.
Lithuanian:
1941 metų liepos 7 -
rugpjūčio 17 dienomis
šioje teritorijoje buvo
žydų getas
Translation: In 1941, July 7 / August 17 / this territory was / a Jewish ghetto
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish community
7 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Standing steles and post, all width 201 cm, one stele hight 55 cm, width 80 cm
Poles hight 70 cm, width 20 cm
On July 7, 1941, the Jews of Panevėžys were forced into a ghetto along with Jews from Naujamiestis, Krekenava, Raguva and Ramygala. The ghetto area was confined to several of the town’s streets. On July 11, 1941, the transfer of the Jews to the ghetto was completed. The ghetto was encircled by barbed wire, with Lithuanian guards posted to watch over it. While the Jews of the city were transferred to the ghetto, seventy of the community’s most distinguished members were arrested as hostages and taken to Pajuoste, where they were executed. The entire population of the ghetto was murdered in August 1941.
A monument to the ghetto was erected in the early 1990s by the Lithuanian Jewish Community.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 134.