Obj. ID: 52873
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial near Linkmenys, Lithuania, 1991
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
About 70 Linkmenys Jews.
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 and Menorah is at the bottom.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
דא, אויף דעם ארט
האבן די נאצי-רוצחים און זעיירע
מיטהעלפער אין 1941
גרויזאם אומגעבראכט
120 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 120 Jews - children, women, men. Sacred is the memory of the innocent victims.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitlerininkai ir jų
vietiniai talkininkai 1941 m.
žiauriai nužudė 120 žydų – vaikų
moterų ir vyrų.
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s henchmen and their / local helpers in 1941 / brutally murdered 120 Jews – children, / women, and men. / May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
3 image(s)
sub-set tree:
70 Linkmenys Jews were murdered here in the middle of July of 1941 (exact date unknown). The corpses were exhumed and buried in Švenčionėliai in 1961.
A monument was probably erected in 1991.
On November 16, 1994, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 21214).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 248.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/ba72a5f2-7356-43fd-b382-c2b12cab0abf., 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. 86.