Obj. ID: 52870
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial at Sungardai forest near Salakas, Lithuania, 1993
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
About 150 Salakas Jews – men, women, and children – were murdered in the forest of Sungardai.
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 stele's upper part, and Menorah is at the bottom.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
דא, אויף דעם ארט
האבן די נאצי-רוצחים און זעיירע
מיטהעלפער אין יאר 1941
גרויזאם אומגעבראכט
114 יידן - קינדער, פרויען, מענער.
הייליק איז דער אנדענק פון
די אומשולדיקע קורבנות
Translation: Here, in this place, the Nazi murderers and their helpers in 1941 brutally killed 114 Jews - children, women, men. Sacred is the memory of the innocent victims.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitlerininkai ir jų
vietiniai talkininkai 1941 m. rugpjūčio mėn.
žiauriai nužudė 114 žydų – vaikų
moterų ir vyrų.
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s henchmen and their / local helpers in August 1941 / brutally murdered 114 Jews – children, / women, and men. / May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
150 Salakas Jews were murdered here in the end of August of 1941 (exact date unknown).
A monument was probably erected in 1993.
On June 24, 1996, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 11969).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 247.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/0a48b11c-e3b6-4bf5-868a-38133317c575., 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. 88.