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© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2022 , (Negative/Photo.:   A552659)

Memorial name

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

Ona Šimaitė, Righteous Among the Nations

Description:

A plaque of gray granite is fixed on the exterior wall of a building in the Simonas Daukantas Courtyard where the Yiddish Institute of the Vilnius University was located from 2001 to 2019. The name of Ona Šimaitė is emphasized, as well as the phrase “Righteous Among the Nations.”

It bears a Lithuanian inscription.

Inscription:

Vilniaus universiteto
bibliotekoje
1940–1944 m.
dirbo
Ona Šimaitė
(1894-1970)
Vilniaus geto
žydų gelbėtoja
Pasaulio tautų teisuolė

Translation: In the library of the Vilnius university, in 1940-1944, worked Ona Šimaitė (1894-1970), the savior of the Jews of the Vilnius ghetto, the Righteous Among the Nations.

Commissioned by
The Genocide and Resistance Research Center of Lithuania.
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Vladimir Levin | 2022
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Commemorative plaque to Ona Šimaitė in the Vilnius University | Unknown
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Lithuania | Vilnius County | Vilnius
| Universiteto 7, S. Daukantos Courtyard
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