Obj. ID: 8927
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish cemetery in Pakruojis, Lithuania
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the new Jewish cemetery is located about one and a half kilometres northwest of Old Pakruojis. It was founded in the middle to late 19th century. The overall size of the cemetery is more than 100 meters long and about 40 metres wide. According to maps from 1950 and 1962 the cemetery occupies a larger territory than is fenced. There are graves and tombstones visible in the wood behind the fencing. The natural boundaries are open fields on three sides and the road from Pakruojis on the fourth. The whole area is covered with trees and it is nowadays enclosed by a wooden fence. In total about 50 gravestones can be seen, about 30 are in the fenced-off area and 20 outside the fence. The original wall around the cemetery was destroyed during the Nazi occupation. In 1994 a memorial stone was erected on the new Jewish cemetery; its foundation is made of fragments of tombstones found therein. There is also a stone commemorating the murders of the Jewish citizens in July-August 1941. There is a wooden fence, between 0.5-1 meters in height, however the site is not entierly fenced. There are 83 gravestones.
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