Obj. ID: 45571
Jewish Funerary Art Tombsone on the Grave of the Jews of Anykščiai in the Third (Šeškinė) Jewish Cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania, 1969
To the main object: Third (Šeškinė) Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania
Who is Commemorated?
Anykščiai Jews murdered in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the second row back from the central walkway of the cemetery. It is a square marble plaque set within a concrete frame. On the plaque, a Star of David is depicted above a Hebrew inscription.
Inscription:
העצמות הקדושים שנהרגו
על קידוש השם ע"י הפשיסטים י"ש [יימח שמם]
ונקברו בעיר אניקשט בשנת תש"א
ובשנת תשכ"ט עצמותיהם
העבירו לעיר ווילנא ונקברו
על בית עלמין החדש מווילנא זי"ע [זכותם יגן עלינו]
תנצבה
המתעסקים בהקמת המצבה
היו שארית הפלטה מעיר אניקשט
Translation: Bones of the martyrs who were murdered / for the sanctification of the God’s name by the Fascists, may their names be blotted out / and buried in the city of Anykščiai in the year 1941 / and in the year 1969, their bones / transferred to the city of Vilnius and interred / in the New Cemetery of Vilnius, may their virtue stand us in good stead. / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life. / Those who erected the tombstone / were the last Jews from the city of Anykščiai.
Commissioned by
Holocaust survivors from the city of Anykščiai
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
The monument marks the symbolic mass grave of the Anykščiai Jews, murdered in 1941.
In 1969, Anykščiai Holocaust survivors brought a symbolic handful of dirt from the mass murder site near the town to the Vilnius cemetery and unveiled this monument.
Agranovskii, Genrikh and Irina Guzenberg. Vilnius: Po sledam Litovskogo Ierusalima. Pamiatnye mesta ereiskoi istorii i kul’tury, 2nd ed. (Vilnius: The Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum, 2016)., p. 691.
Guzenberg, Irina, Vilnius: Traces of the Jewish Jerusalem of Lithuania. Memorable Sites of Jewish History and Culture. A Guidebook (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2021)., 707.