Obj. ID: 52896
Modern Jewish Art Holocaust memorial in Vyžuonos Forest near Rokiškis, Lithuania, 1980
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
67 Jews of Rokiškis rural district murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated in a low meadow. A path with stairs leads to it; there are concrete walls on it's both sides creating a feeling of a narrow pathway.
The monument is a high concrete white block, on all four sides of which there are relief sculptures depicting a soldier, a soldier with a gun, a mother and a child, gallows, and a lying body. Currently, there are no inscriptions on the monument.
Commissioned by
Authorities of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic.
11 image(s)
sub-set tree:
In July 1941, 67 people were shot in Vyžuonos forest.
Originally, there were inscriptions in Lithuanian and Russian: Čia 1941 m. liepos mėn. nužudyti Rokiškio apskrities tarybiniai aktyvistai / Here Soviet activists from Rokiškis District were murdered in July 1941. The inscriptions probably disappeared in the 1990s.
Since April 1, 2016, the monument is no longer protected by the state and is abandoned. The former number in the State Cultural Register is 11156.
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 152.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/static-heritage-detail/fc3caaaf-3080-4c74-8504-2c751b552fc8., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)