Img. ID: 564155
Memorial Name
Kavarsko žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass killing site and grave of Kavarskas Jews.
Who is Commemorated?
20 Kavarskas Jews murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated on the killing site and is surrounded by a metal fence.
The monument is a low granite stele, attached to an older monument. 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. The monument is similar to another monument to Kavarskas Jews and the inscriptions on them are identical (see here).
Inscription:
Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
אין 1941 געמארדעט
קאווארסקער יידן -
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: At this place, / Hitlerite murderers and / their local helpers, / in 1941, murdered / the Jews of Kavarskas, / men, women, children.
Lithuanian:
Tebūnie šventas jų atminimas
Translation: May their memory remain sacred
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community