Obj. ID: 52730
Memorials Holocaust memorial near Kavarskas hamlet/khutor, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Kavarsko žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass killing site and grave of Kavarskas Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
15-20 Kavarskas Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site surrounded by concrete posts, which once had metal chains between them.
The monument is a granite stele attached to a concrete stele. 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.
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
8 image(s)
sub-set tree:
15-20 Kavarskas Jews were murdered here by Kavarskas Lithuanian white armbanders in the summer of 1941 (exact date unknown).
A monument was probably erected in the 1990s, at the same time when another monument to Kavarskas Jews was erected (see here).
On December 29, 2016, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 40615).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 241.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/3352201a-326b-4b98-a175-2994e9e9241d., 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.