Obj. ID: 52961
Memorials Monument with Lithuanian Inscription in Biliūnai near Panevėžys, Lithuania, 1990s
To the main object: Holocaust memorial in Biliūnai near Panevėžys, Lithuania, 1948
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
7523 Jews of Krekenava, Panevėžys, Piniava, Raguva, Ramygala, Troškūnai and other rural districts murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site and supplements the monument built in 1948 with Yiddish and Russian texts (see here).
It is a granite stele with a Lithuanian inscription and the Star of David above the text.
Inscription:
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitlerininkai ir jų
pagalbininkai 1941 metų
rugpjūčio mėnesį nužudė apie
8000 žydų vaikų, moterų ir vyrų
Translation: At this place Hitlerites and their / helpers in August 1941 murdered about / 8,000 Jewish children, women, and men.
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish community
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sub-set tree:
The murder of the Jews of Panevėžys took place on August 23, 1941. Two pits about 40 meters long were dug in the forest. Jews were brought to the shooting place by troops of the Panevėžys (10th) battalion. The massacre took all day. A total of 7,523 Jews were shot (1,312 men, 4,602 women, 1,609 children). Jews from different rural districts of Panevėžys district were murdered along with the prisoners of the Panevėžys ghetto.
The monument with a Lithuanian inscription was installed in the early 1990s, to supplement the original monument which has only Yiddish and Russian inscriptions (see here).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 139.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/63e8cc41-cf5f-4a3e-92f6-95c05971fa10., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)