Obj. ID: 52729
Memorials Holocaust memorial near Kavarskas, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Kavarsko žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass killing site and grave of Kavarskas Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
20 Kavarskas Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site and is surrounded by a metal fence.
The monument is a low granite stele, attached to an older monument. A Yiddish inscription occupies its central part; beneath it, there is a Lithuanian inscription. A star of David is depicted in the upper part of the stele. The monument is similar to another monument to Kavarskas Jews and the inscriptions on them are identical (see here).
Inscription:
Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
אין 1941 געמארדעט
קאווארסקער יידן -
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: At this place, / Hitlerite murderers and / their local helpers, / in 1941, murdered / the Jews of Kavarskas, / men, women, children.
Lithuanian:
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
sub-set tree:
20 Kavarskas Jews were murdered here by Kavarskas Lithuanian white armbanders in the summer of 1941 (exact date unknown).
The date of installation of the older monument is unknown. A newer monument was erected in the early 1990s, by the Jewish Community of Lithuania, at the same time when another monument to Kavarskas Jews was erected (see here).
On February 9, 1993, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 10809).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 240.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/11bad9aa-2520-4382-9cf0-67adef96e62e., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 82.