Obj. ID: 52768
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial in Saldutiškis, Lithuania, 1960s
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
50 Saldutiškis Communists and Soviet activists among them 14 Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is probably situated on the killing site, it is not fenced and is neglected.
The monument is a concrete pole. There is only year on inscription. A five-pointed star is depicted in the upper part of the pole.
Inscription:
Lithuanian:
1941-1944
(aukoms?)
Translation: (To the victims of?) / 1941-1944
Commissioned by
The authorities of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
On July 3, 1941, a group of Lithuanian deserters from the Red Army arrested 7 Jews and shot them outside town. On August 4, 1941, two German SD officials accompanied by local police and a few white armbanders arrested about 40 people and took them to the forest about a kilometer away from town. Communists and Soviet activists were executed first and then the 7 Jews.
In 1960 the victims’ remains were moved to the WWII victims' cemetery of Saldutiškis.
The monument is from the Soviet era, the exact date is unknown, probably from the 1960s.
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 256-257.