Obj. ID: 53263
Memorials Holocaust memorial near Pušalotas, Lithuania, 1960s(?)
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
248 murdered Jews from Pušalotas.
Description:
The monument is a concrete stele standing on a concrete base. There is no plaque with inscriptions on it. The perimeter of the grave is marked with a fence.
Commissioned by:
Unknown
7 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Base width: 132 cm
Base thickness:102 cm
It is known that 10 Jewish men and women as well as alleged Communists were murdered in July 1941, in the Jewish cemetery of Pušalotas. In the same month, local white armbanders shot 18 more Jews in the forest of Šadeikoniai. Another execution of the town’s Jews might have taken place in August or September 1941. The exact date and circumstances of the massacre are not known. The number of victims was about 248.
The date of the construction of the monument is unknown. In the early 1990s, the monument had a plaque with inscriptions in Yiddish and Lithuanian, which later disappeared.
On April 20, 2015, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 37518).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 142.
Kultūros vertybių registras, http://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/e1bfc49a-4bf3-4ca2-8f21-3f870f135e88., 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. 136.