Img. ID: 489329
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
About 1,500–2,000 Jews from Kupiškis, Šimonys, Subačius and Viešintai rural districts murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated in the Jewish cemetery.
The monument consists of two concrete steles painted white. they are connected by a metal construction which bears two wooden plaques, inscribed in Yiddish (right) and Lithuanian (left). It seems that the plaques were installed in the early 1990s, instead of a Soviet-style inscription that existed from the 1960s.
The monument stands on a platform. A pathway and stone stairs lead to the platform from the direction of the entrance to the cemetery. Another stone stairway is situated behind the monument and leads to the direction of the river. A low concrete wall surrounds the rear stairway and tt seems that it marks the actual mass grave.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
צום אנדענק
די קרבנות פון יידן-גענאציד,
ליטווינער, רוסן און מענטשן פון אנדערע
נאציאנאליטעטן, וועלכע די נאציס
מיט זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
האבן דא דערמארדעט אין 1941 יאר
Translation: In memory of / victims of the Jewish genocide, / Lithuanians, Russians, and people of other / nationalities, whom Nazis / with their local helpers / murdered here in 1941.
Lithuanian:
Atminimui žydų genocido aukų
taip pat lietuvių ir kitų tautybių
žmonių, kuriuos 1941 metais
čia žudė vokiškieji nacistai
ir jų talkininkai
Translation: In memory of victims of the Jewish genocide / as well as Lithuanians and people of other nationalities / who were killed in 1941 / here by German Nazis / and their henchmen.
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community (?)