Obj. ID: 46051
Memorials Soviet Obelisk in the Paneriai Memorial, Lithuania, 1964(?)
To the main object: Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius, Lithuania, from 1948 to 2015
Memorial name
Soviet monument in memory of the victims of Fascism.
Who is Commemorated?
The victims of Fascism killed in Paneriai.
Description:
The obelisk is situated on a hill in the western part of the memorial complex.
The obelisk is made of granite blocks and topped by a five-pointed star in a wreath. The base of the obelisk is situated on a granite pedestal, which is surrounded by small piers connected by a chain.
On the front side of the base, a plaque bears identical inscriptions in Lithuanian and Russian. On the three other sides of the base are metal garlands. A similar garland surrounds the lower edge of the obelisk, just above the base.
Inscription:
Fašistino teroro
aukoms
Жертвам
фашистского террора
1941–1944
Translation: To the victims of Fascist terror, 1941–1944
Commissioned by
The Soviet state.
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The obelisk was erected on the site of the first monument, built by the Jewish survivors in 1948 and pulled down by the Soviet authorities between 1949 and 1952. Apparently, the base of the original monument was reused for the obelisk.
Researchers provide different dates of the monument's erection: the early 1970s (Agranovskii and Guzenberg 2016, 719), 1964 (Guzenberg 2013, 47), and the early 1960s (Guzenberg 2021, 737) have all been proposed.
This obelisk is the oldest monument in the memorial complex. It is visited each year on May 8 to commemorate the end of World War II, as well as on August 2, on the day of the commemoration of the Roma genocide.
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)., 719.
Guzenberg, Irina, Vilnius: Traces of the Jewish Jerusalem of Lithuania. Memorable Sites of Jewish History and Culture. A Guidebook (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2021).
Guzenberg, Irina. Vilnius: Pamiatnye mesta evreiskoi istorii i kul'tury (Vilnius: Pavilniai, 2013)., 47.
Website of The Paneriai Memorial of Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum, "The first monument to commemorate the Jews and the Soviet monument in memory of the victims of Fascism," https://www.paneriumemorialas.lt/en/sovietinis-obeliskas-m10/., https://www.paneriumemorialas.lt/en/objektai/ (accessed January 25, 2023)