Obj. ID: 52769
Memorials Holocaust memorial near Giedraičiai, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
Approximate 20 Giedraičiai Jewish men were murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site.
The monument is made from wood, and resembles traditional Lithuanian roofed pole or roofed pillar. A Yiddish inscription occupies its central part; beneath it, there is a Lithuanian inscription. A Star of David is depicted on a side of the plaque, next to the Yiddish inscription.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
דא, אויף דעם ארט,
האבן די נאצי-רוצחים
און זעיירע מיטהעלפער
1941. VIII אין [!]
דערמארדעת [דערמארדעט]
בערך 30 יידישע מענער
Translation: Here, at this place, / Hitlerite murderers / and their helpers, / in August 1941, / murdered / about 30 Jewish men.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje nacistiniai budeliai ir jų vietiniai talkininkai
1941 m. VIII nužudė 30 žydų vyrų.
Translation: Here, at this spot, Nazi henchmen and their local collaborators /on 1941 VIII murdered about 30 Jewish men
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
9 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Full height: 133 cm
On July 7, 1941, Giedraičiai white armbanders and police shot eight people (seven of whom were Jews) deep in the Kamaraučizna forest.
At the beginning of August, 1941, police chief Petras Zaremba assembled about 20 white armbanders and ordered them to arrest 17 Jews in Giedraičiai. They marched the next to the Kamaraučizna forest, Zaremba ordered all those detained to line up and began shooting them.
The monument is from 1990s, exact date unknown.
On August 26, 2010, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no.33594).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 250.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/0e3511e3-86c9-4ec8-8e6d-d26ab817cf9f., 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. 127.