Img. ID: 134388
Memorial name
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The theater of the Vilnius Ghetto and its actors.
Description:
A gray granite plaque is fixed to the wall of the former ghetto theater, which currently functions as the Lėlė puppet theater. It contains two identical inscriptions in Lithuanian and Yiddish.
Inscriptions:
In Lithuanian:
Lietuvos Jeruzalės menininkų
didvyriškomis pastangomis
čia 1942 – 1943 veikė
Vilniaus geto teatras
Translation: Thanks to heroic efforts of the artists of the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the Vilnius Ghetto Theater operated here from 1942 to 1943.
In Yiddish:
אין דעם בנין
איז אדאנק די העלדישע באמיאונגען
פון די קינסטלער פון ירושלים ד'ליטא
אין 1942 – 1943 געווען טעטיק
דער ווילנער געטאָ-טעאטער
Translation: In this building, thanks to the heroic efforts of the artists from the Jerusalem of Lithuania, the Vilnius Ghetto Theatre operated from 1942 to 1943.
Commissioned by
The Club of Jewish Culture in Vilnius