Obj. ID: 52766
Jewish Funerary Art Monument at the killing site of Jewish men in Joniškis, Lithuania, 1991
Memorial Name
Joniškio žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas I - Mass killing site and grave no. 1 of Joniškis Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
70 Joniškis Jewish men murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site and is surrounded by a metal fence.
The monument is a metal plaque. 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 plaque.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
דא, אויף דעם ארט האבן די נאצי-רוצחים און
זעיירע מיטהעלפער דעם 24. 07. 1941
גרויזאם אומגעבראכט בערך 70 יידישע מענער
הייליק איז דער אנדענק פון
אומשולדיקע קורבנות
Translation: Here, in this place, the Nazi murderers and their helpers brutally killed about 70 Jewish men on July 24, 1941. Sacred is the memory of innocent victims.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitleriniai galvažudžiai
ir jų vietiniai pagalbininkai
1941. 07. 24 nužudė apie 70 žydų vyrų.
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: At this place Hitler’s murderers / and their local helpers / on July 24, 1941, murdered about 70 Jewish men. / May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
At the begining of August, 1941, the Jewish men were separated from the women and children and taken to Arinas lake next to the Catholic cemetery. There they were lined up in rows and shot.
The monument is from 1991, but it is possible there was an older monument from Soviet era.
On August 26, 2010, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 33595).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 251.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/1a1d3377-c559-4840-8e51-4da2c65fcddb., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 125.