Img. ID: 444525
Who is Commemorated?
1,200 victims of the second "yellow shayns" Aktion on November 3, 1941.
Description:
A granite plaque is attached to the courtyard wall of 8 Rūdninkų Street, where the Judenrat was situated. It contains identical inscriptions in Lithuanian and Yiddish.
Inscriptions:
In Lithuanian:
Šiame pastate buvo geto taryba
(judenratas), kurio kieme 1941 m. lapkričio 3 d.
buvo atrinkta sunaikinimui 1200 žydų.
In Yiddish:
אין דער דאָזיקער געבײַדע איז געווען דער יודנראט.
אויפן הויף האָט מען דעם 3-טן נאָוועמבער 1941
אָפגעקליבן צו פארניכטן 1200 ייִדן
Translation: This building housed the ghetto council (Judenrat), in whose yard on November 3, 1941 1,200 Jews were selected for annihilation.
Commissioned by
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum and the Jewish Community of Lithuania, on the initiative of Vilnius Jewish historian Genrikh Agranovsky, and financed by the Vilnius municipality (Agranovskii 1994; Guzenberg 2013).