Obj. ID: 53287 Small Holocaust memorial near Tauragė, Lithuania, 1991
Who is Commemorated?
635 Jews from Tauragė murdered at this site.
Description:
The monument is situated 20 meters from the main monument and marks an additional mas grave. It is a granite plaque with the Star of David, lying on a granite base.
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The second mass murder of the Jews of Tauragė was carried out between July 3 and July 10, 1941, when 122 Jewish men were shot. They were initially arrested by Gestapo men from GPP Laugszargen and Lithuanian police shortly after the German army seized Tauragė.
On September 16, 1941, 513 Jewish children and elderly people were murdered in Antšunija village.
A monument at the killing site was erected in the 1960s or 1970s (exact date unknown). In 1991 a new monument by local artists Antanas and Elena Bagdonai was installed. This small monument was probably added at the same time.
On February 22, 1993, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania of national importance (no. 11249).
https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/f576e5b1-5dc3-440e-a19a-5ef680a9e7c8
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), pp. 206-207.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., pp. 168-169.