Img. ID: 564222
Memorial Name
Svėdasų mstl. žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass killing site and grave of Svėdasai town Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
Sėdasai town Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site and is surrounded by a metal fence with 8 concrete posts in between.
The monument is a low granite 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:
דא, אויף דעם ארט,
האבן די נאצי רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
אין 1941 דערמארדעט
א גרופע סוויאדושצער יידן
Translation: Here, in this place / the Nazi murderers and / their local helpers / in 1941, murdered / a group of Svėdasai Jews.
Lithuanian:
Žydų genocido kapai
Translation: Graves of the Jewish genocide
Commissioned by
[to be determined]