Obj. ID: 46047
Jewish Architecture Museum Building in the Paneriai Memorial, Lithuania, 1985
To the main object: Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 1948 to 2015
Memorial name
Museum / Paneriai Memorial Information Centre
Although not a memorial of the Holocaust, the building is an integral part of the Paneriai memorial complex.
Who is Commemorated?
Victims murdered in Paneriai.
Description:
A museum at the killing site of Paneriai was established between 1959 and 1960, in a wooden building that also contained the director’s apartment. In 1983 the building burned down, and in 1985 a new two-story white brick building was built. In 2018, the museum became the Paneriai Memorial Information Centre and its exhibition was renovated.
A granite sign in the shape of a T in front of the building bears identical inscriptions in Lithuanian, Yiddish, and English.
Inscriptions:
In Lithuanian:
Panerių
muziejus
Lietuvos
valstybinio
žydų muziejaus
skyrius
In Yiddush:
פאנאר-מוזיי
אפטייל
פון יידישן
מלוכה-מוזיי
In English:
Paneriai
Museum
A department
of Jewish State
Museum
of Lithuania
Commissioned by
the LSSR History and Revolution Museum
12 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Guzenberg, Irina, Vilnius: Traces of the Jewish Jerusalem of Lithuania. Memorable Sites of Jewish History and Culture. A Guidebook (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2021)., 738.
Website of The Paneriai Memorial of Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, "Museum of Paneriai," https://www.paneriumemorialas.lt/en/paneriu-memorialo-lankytoju-informacijos-centras-m8/., https://www.paneriumemorialas.lt/en/objektai/ (accessed January 25, 2023)