Obj. ID: 52956
Memorials 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 situated on the killing site. The pit is marked with concrete curb. The monument stands in the middle of the pit. It is made from concrete stele with granite plaque and inscription in Lithuanian and Yiddish. Above the text is Star of David. The monument is standing nearby the killing site no. 2.
Another killing site with a monument is situated nearby:
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 1349 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
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. This hapened between August 28 to August 31, 1941. Almost certainly Jews from surrounding districts were murdered in Pasvalys as well. The Jäger Report says 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.
The monument at this place was set up at 1973. Few times there was changed plaques. The later one is put on 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. 11073).
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/26909556-de46-4139-9e9f-1899fd3d7f94.