Obj. ID: 52767
Jewish Funerary Art Monument at the killing site of Jewish women and children in Joniškis, Lithuania, 1991
Memorial Name
Joniškio žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas II - Mass killing site and grave no. 2 of Joniškis Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
85 Joniškis Jewish women and children murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site and is surrounded by a metal fence.
The monument is a lmetal 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:
אויף דעם אָרט האָבן די היטלערישע רוצחים
און זייערע אָרטיגקע באהעלפער
דעם 24. 07. 1941 דערמאָרדעט בערך 85 יידישע
פרויען און קינדער
הייליק איז דער אָנדענק
Translation: In this place, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers murdered about 85 Jewish women and children on July 24, 1941. The memory is sacred.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitlerininkai galvažudžiai
ir jų vietiniai pagalbininkai 1941. 07. 24
nužudė apie 85 žydų: vyrų, moterų, vaikų.
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: At this place Hitler’s henchmen / and their local helpers on July 24, 1941 / murdered about 85 Jews – men, women and children. / May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
At the begining of August, 1941, the Jewish women and children were separated from men and were taken to the other side of the town and shot about one half kilometer away from town, near the lake.
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. 33596).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 251.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/03137ffd-dc83-44f9-b6f4-1716b3c7e3a7., 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.