Obj. ID: 52955
Memorials Holocaust memorial no. 2 in Žadeikiai Forest near Pasvalys, Lithuania, 1973
To the main object: Holocaust memorial no. 1 in Žadeikiai Forest near Pasvalys, Lithuania, 1973
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Joniškėlis, Krinčinas, Pasvalys, Pumpėnai, Vabalninkas, Vaškai murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is standing near the killing site no. 1. The pit is marked with a concrete curb.
The monument is a concrete stele with a granite plaque and inscriptions in Lithuanian and Yiddish. Above the text, there is the Star of David.
Another killing site with a monument is situated nearby (see here)
Inscription:
Lithuanian:
Šiojs vietose 1941 m. rugpjūčio mėn. hitleriniai okupantai ir jų vietiniai
talkininkai nužudė ir užkasė 1349 Pasvalio krašto žydus
Translation: “At these places, in August 1941, Hitlerite occupiers and their local / helpers murdered and buried 1,349 Jews from Pasvalys region.
Yiddish:
אין די ערטער אין אווגוסט 1941 האׇבן די היטלערישע
אקופאנטן און זייערע אׇרטיקעצ מיטהעלפער דערמאׇרדעט
און באגראׇבן 1349 יידן פון פאׇסוועלער קרייז
Translation: In these places, in August 1941, the Hitlerite occupiers and their local helpers murdered / and buried 1,349 Jews from the Posvol region.
Commissioned by
Authorities of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
sub-set tree: 
There are uncertainties on the date of the mass murder at Pasvalys but no doubts over the fact of the mass murder. It happened between August 28 to August 31, 1941. Almost certainly, Jews from surrounding districts were murdered in Pasvalys as well. The Jäger Report says that 1,349 Jews were killed in Pasvalys, including 402 men, 783 women and 209 children. They were killed at two pits with a short distance between them.
The monument at this place was set up in 1973. Plaques with inscriptions, however, were changed several times, the current plaque was affixed between 2011 and 2022.
On February 18, 1993, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 35337).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 141.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/ee6eb5aa-90c7-4169-bb21-95ec816f2062.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 135.