Obj. ID: 45477
Memorials Memorial plaque at 3 Lydos St. in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1992
Who is Commemorated?
Jews taken from Lydos St. to Ponary on September 7, 1941.
Description:
A granite plaque is attached to 3 Lydos Street, where the prison of the Large Ghetto was located. It contains identical inscriptions in Lithuanian and Yiddish.
Inscriptions:
In Lithuanian:
1941 m. rugsėjo 7 d. i [į] šia gatvę
buvo suvaryta virš 2 tūkstančių žydų,
kurious po to nužudė Paneriuose.
In Yiddish:
דעם 7-טן סעפטעמבער 1941
זײַנען אויף דעם דאָזיקער גאס
צונויפגעטריכן געוואָרן מערער ווי 2 טויזנט ייִדן,
וועלכע מען האָט שפעטער דערהרגעט אין פאָנאר
Translation: On September 7, 1941, on this street, more than two thousand Jews were driven away and later killed in Ponary
Commissioned by
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and the Jewish Community of Lithuania, on the initiative of Vilnius Jewish historian Genrikh Agranovsky, and financed by the Vilnius municipality.
(We are grateful to Dr. Aistė Niunkaitė Račiūnienė and her father for providing this photograph. During the expedition of November 2022, the plaque was found missing because the building was under renovation.)
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This building housed the typography of Avraham Tzvi Hirsh Rosenkrantz and Menahem Mendl Schriftsetzer beginning in 1884.
Lydos St. was initially included within the Large Ghetto, established on September 6, 1941. However, the next day, the street was excluded from the Ghetto boundary. About 2,000 Jews who had settled there in the previous day were driven to the Lukiškis prison, and from there to the murder site in Ponary (Paneriai).
The building at 3 Lydos St. served as the prison of the Large Ghetto, and was entered from inside the ghetto.
The memorial plaque was installed on the initiative of Vilnius Jewish historian Genrikh Agranovsky and financed by the municipality (Guzenberg 2013, 51). It was unveiled on January 29, 1992 (Guzenberg 2013, 49).
Agranovskii, Genrikh and Irina Guzenberg. Vilnius: Po sledam Litovskogo Ierusalima. Pamiatnye mesta ereiskoi istorii i kul’tury, 2nd ed. (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 2016)., 181.
Guzenberg, Irina, Vilnius: Traces of the Jewish Jerusalem of Lithuania. Memorable Sites of Jewish History and Culture. A Guidebook (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2021)., 189.
Guzenberg, Irina. Vilnius: Pamiatnye mesta evreiskoi istorii i kul'tury (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2013)., 49, 51.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., 55.