Obj. ID: 52761
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial near Vyžuonos, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Vyžuonų mstl. žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass killing site and the grave of Vyžuonos town Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
Vyžuonos Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site. The site is not fenced.
The monument is a 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:
צום אָדענק
די וויזשונער יידן,
וועלכע די נאציס און זיערע
אָרטיקע באהעלפער האָבן דא
אומגעבראכט אין 1941
Translation: In memory of the Jews of Vizhun, whom the Nazis and their local helpers murdered here in 1941.
Lithuanian:
Vyžuonų žydams,
kuriuos nacistai ir jų
vietiniai talkininkai
nužudė 1941 m., atminti
Translation: In memory of the Jews of Vyžuonos, whom the Nazis and their local helpers murdered in 1941.
Commissioned by
[to be determined]
Unknown number of Vyžuonos Jews were murdered here (exact date unknown).
The monument was erected in the 1990s.
On September 27, 1996, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 20718).
6 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 239.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/c25d2240-c3b4-4914-af8c-da6e5701bf33., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)