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© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2014

Who is Commemorated?

Yosef Glazman (1913-1943), a Jewish partisan leader in the Vilnius ghetto and in the Naroch Forest.

Description:

This cenotaph is a stele made of red granite with beveled upper corners. Glazman’s name in Lithuanian is located in the upper part of the stele, and beneath it there are depictions of a seven-branched menorah and a Star of David. Identical inscriptions in Hebrew and Yiddish are placed beneath those symbols. 

This cenotaph is the only one out of the four in the cemetery that has no commemoration in Lithuanian.

Inscriptions:

In Lithuanian:

Josifas Glazmanas

Translation: Josef Glazman

In Hebrew: 

יוסף בן ישראל חיים גלזמן הי"ד

חבר מפקדת ארגון הפרטיזנים המאוחדים
בגיטו וילנא וראש מטה של גדוד "נקמה" – גדוד
הפרטיזנים היהודי הראשון ביערות נארוץ.
נפל בקרב נגד הנצים הגרמנים ביום הכיפורים
תש"ד – 9.10.1943 

In Yiddish: 

יוסף דער זון פון
ישראל-חיים גלאזמאן הי"ד
שטאב מיטגליד פון דער פאראייניקטע פאר-
טיזאנער ארגאניזאציע אין ווילנער געטא.
הויפט פון שטאב פונעם אטריאד "נקמה" -
ערשטער יידישער פארטיזאנער אטריאד אין
די נאראטשער וועלדער. געפאלן אין קאמף
קעגן די דייטשישע נאציס יום כיפור תש"ד
9.10.1943

Translation: Yosef son of Israel Haim Glazman, may God avenge his blood, a member of the headquarters of the United Partisan Organization in the Vilnius Ghetto and the head of the headquarters of the squadron “Nekome” (Revenge) – the first Jewish partisan squadron in the Naroch Forest. Killed in a fight against German Nazis on Yom Kippur 5704 – 9.10.1943.

 

Commissioned by

Former Bund member and FPO fighter Samuil Kaplinsky, and his wife FPO activist, Hiena Borovska (Kaplinsky).

The cenotaph was funded by former members of Beitar organization (Guzenberg 2021, 702).

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Cenotaph of Yosef Glazman in the Third (Šeškinė) Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius | Unknown
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| 28 Sudervės kelias St, Šeškinė
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A341655