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© Samuel D. Gruber, Photographer: Gruber, Samuel D., 2017 , (Negative/Photo.:   A554156)
Memorial Name
Žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass killing site and grave of Jews

Who is Commemorated

The 1,160 Jews of Obeliai killed and buried here.

Description

This memorial is located in a grove of trees on a hill on the outskirts of Obeliai, next to the Degsne forest. partway up the hill, a gravel path leads to a blue metal fence. Next to the fence's gate is a small stone stele inscribed with a Magen David and the words "Holocaust Mass Graves" in Lithuanian and English.

The path continues in a straight line, flanked by curated trees, until terminating at a series of concrete panels laying on the site of the mass grave with a pair of dark stone stele upright and positioned behind the monument's central axis. except for the path and the monument, the forest floor is allowed to grow naturally.

The two steles are on top of a small pedestal of the same material and are inscribed with a commemoration of the mass murder that happened here in Yiddish and Lithuanian. While not officially a part of the monument, many visitors leave flowers, candles, or small stones in front of these steles as a way of commemorating the victims.

Inscription

Yiddish:

אין 1941 זיינען דאָ
פון די נאציסטן
און זייערע אָרטיקע
מיטהעלפערס אכזריותדיק
פארניכטעט געוואָרן
1160 יידישע קינדער,
פרויען און מענער.
זאָל זיין הייליק
דער אָנדענק פון די
אומשולדיק
אומגעקומענע!

Translation: Here in 1941 Nazis and their local helpers murdered 1,160 Jewish children, women, and men. May the memory of the innocent victims remain sacred!

Lithuanian:

Čia 1941 m. naciai ir jų
vietiniai pagalbininkai
nužudė 1160 žydų
(vaikų, moterų, vyrų)

Tebūnie šventas
nekaltai žuvusiųjų
atminimas

Translation: Here in 1941 Nazis and their local helpers murdered 1,160 Jews (children, women, and men). May the memory of the innocent victims remain sacred.

Commissioned by

Probably, the Lithuanian Jewish Community

Documenter
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Samuel D. Gruber | 2022
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Holocaust Memorial near Obeliai | Unknown
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Sign showing the direction and distance to the monument erected by the Holocaust Educational Trust ca. 2001
Completion Date
1990s
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Lithuania | Panevėžys County | Obeliai
| Antanašė village
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