Obj. ID: 58533
Memorials Memorial on the mass grave of men near Žiežmariai, Lithuania, 1964, 1990
Name of Monument
Žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass Murder Site and Grave of Jews
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Žasliai, Žiežmariai, Kaišiadorys, victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The monument is located in a wooded area, and the grave is surrounded by a metal fence made of segments. Next to the fence, there is an information sign about the Kaišiadorys district, and next to it, there is a pillar with a QR code that provides brief information about the site in Lithuanian.
In the center of the area, there is a square paved with concrete tiles, and on a concrete base stands a large field stone with a black granite slab attached to it. The slab has text in Yiddish and Lithuanian. Above the slab, the Star of David is carved into the stone.
Inscriptions:
In Yiddish:
דא אויף דעם ארט,
האבן די נאצי-רוצחים און
זייערע מיטהעלפער
דעם 1941.08.28
גרויזאם פארפייניקט און
האלב-לעבענדיקע באגראבן
2200 יידישע מענער פון
זשאסלע, זשעזשמער און
קאשעדאר
Translation: In this place, the Nazi murderers and their local helpers, on August 28, 1941, brutally tortured and buried half-alive 2,200 Jewish men from Zhosli, Zhezhmer, and Koshedor,
In Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje nacistiniai
budeliai ir jų vietiniai talkininkai
1941. 08. 28. žiauriai
nukankino ir pusgyvius
užkasė 2200 Žiežmarių,
Žaslių ir Kaišiadorių
žydų vyrų
Translation: In this place, the Nazi henchmen and their local collaborators brutally tortured and buried half-alive 2,200 Jewish men from Žasliai, Žiežmariai and Kaišiadorys on August 28, 1941.
Commissioned by
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sub-set tree: 
Stone 125x180x130 cm
Plaque 60x80 cm
The planned mass shooting of Jews began at the end of August 1941. Jews held at a Kaišiadorys storehouse were murdered first. They were divided into groups of 20–30 and led to their execution. They shot men first, then women and children. By evening, the storehouse was empty and 500 people had been shot. Jews in the ghetto and another warehouse were killed later. According to the Jäger Report, Jews from the Kaišiadorys ghetto and temporary isolation site, 1,911 people, were shot on August 26, 1941.
A monument was placed at the mass murder site on October 16, 1964. In 1990, Žiežmariai traditional artist Vidmantas Kapačiūnas made three sculptures out of oak, which were later burned. In a later stage, the text of the inscription was changed.
Unique Site Code 10892
Status Protected by the state since 1993-02-10
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/#a_atlas/search//page/16/item/43/.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), http://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/2ecea190-c9f7-4285-b628-642c9fd56c46.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 92.