Obj. ID: 48684 Holocaust memorial in the Jewish and Karaite cemetery in Biržai, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Biržų žydų ir karaimų senųjų kapinių ir žydų žudynių vietos komplekso žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Jewish killing site and grave in a complex of Biržai Jews and Karaite cemetery
Who is Commemorated?
Approximately 15 Biržai Jews
Description:
The monument stands close to the entrance to the Jewish and Karaite cemetery, on a killing site. The monument in the shape of a stela with a triangle roof is made of concrete and painted white. Two metal plaques are affixed to it, one on the top of the other. The top plaque has a Yiddish inscription, with the the Star of David above the text. The lower plaque has an inscription in Lithuanian.
Inscription:
Yiddish:
צום אנדענק
בערך 30 בירזשער יידן
וועלכע די נאציס און זייערע
ארטיקע באהעלפער האבן דא
אומגעבראכט אין 1941
Translation: In memory of / about 30 Jews of Birzh / whom the Nazis and their / local helpers / killed in 1941.
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje 1941 m. naciai
ir jų vietiniai talkininkai
sušaudė apie 30 žydų ir
lietuvių tautybės žmonių
Translation: At this place, Nazis and their local collaborators shot about 30 people of Jewish and Lithuanian origin in 1941.
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish community
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| Latvygalos Street, past the junction with Kluono street and opposite house No.77
In July 1941, about a dozen Biržai Jews were taken from the jail at the police station and shot at the Biržai Jewish cemetery. The shooting was carried out by German soldiers.
A monument was erected in the early 1990s, by the Jewish Community of Lithuania.
On October 7, 1995, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 37601).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 132.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/C6DB8AB3-789D-4E51-AAFE-0C29B68F3701., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)