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Img. ID: 444535

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2022 , (Negative/Photo.:   A552650)

Memorial name

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

Fighters of the United Partisan Organization (FPO) who defended Strašūno (now Žemaitijos) Street on September 1, 1943, and their leader Yehiel Sheynboym, who was killed during the fight.

Description:

A black marble plaque is fixed to the wall of a new building at 8a Žemaitijos St., constructed after WWII on the site of the building whose address during the war was 12 Strašūno St.

The plaque contains two identical inscriptions in Lithuanian and Yiddish.

Inscriptions:

In Lithuanian:

Šioje vietoje įrengtoje barikadoje Vilniaus
geto Suvienytos partizanų organizacijos
kovotojai 1943 09 01 sutiko ugnimi nacių
karinį dalinį, žengusį susidoroti su getu.
Naciams pavyko barikadą susprogdinti.
Žuvo keli gynėjai, tarp jų barikados vadovas
Jechielis Šeinboimas.

In Yiddish:

אויף דער באריקאדע, וועלכע איז געווען איינגע-
אָרדנט אין דעם אָרט, האָט אן אָטריאד קעמפער
פון דער פאראייניקטער פארטיזאנער אָרגאניזאציע
פון ווילנער געטאָ דעם 1943.09.01 מיט
פייער באגעגענט א נאצישן מיליטער-טייל, וואָס איז
געגאנגען מאכן א סוף מיטן געטאָ. די נאציס איז
געלונגען די באריקאדע אויפרייסן. ס'זיינען אומגע-
קומען אייניקע אירע פארטיידיקער, צוושן זיי – דער
אָנפירער פון דער באריקאדע יחיאל שיינבוים.

Translation: On the barricade that was organized in this place, a fighting unit of the United Partisan Organization of the Vilnius Ghetto, on September 1, 1943, met with fire a Nazi military unit that went to make an end of the ghetto. The Nazis succeeded to destroy the barricade. Some of its defenders perished, among them the leader of the barricade, Yehiel Sheynboym.

Commissioned by

the Lithuanian Jewish Community. Funded by the German embassy to Lithuania.

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Vladimir Levin | 2022
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Memorial Plaque to Yehiel Sheynboym in Vilnius | Unknown
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Lithuania | Vilnius County | Vilnius
| 8a Žemaitijos St.
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