Obj. ID: 53318 Holocaust memorial no. 1 in Tubiniai Forest near Šilalė, Lithuania, 2010s
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
About 1,300 Jews of Kaltinėnai, Kvėdarna, Laukuva, Pajūris, and Šilalė murdered at sites no.1 and no. 2.
Description:
The monument is a black granite stele standing on a base, with фт inscription in Lithuanian. Above the inscription, the Star of David is depicted. The monument was constructed between 2011 and 2018. The perimeter of the grave is marked by a concrete curb and the murder site is fenced with a metal fence.
Inscription:
Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje
hitleriniai žudikai ir j vietiniai
pagalbininkai 1941 m.
nužudė virš 700 žydų
vyrų, moterų ir vaikų
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers murdered in 1941 over 700 Jews – men, women and children.
Commissioned by:
Šilalė municipality (?)
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The Jewish women and children of Šilalė were shot in the Tūbinės forest in September 1941. The trucks with Jewish women and children drove to the forest, upon their arrival, police pushed them out of the truck and forced them into the pits. Jews were told to undress. They were taken to the edge of the pit and shot. The massacre took all day. The exact number of victims is not known. In 1945, a Soviet special commission determined that 1,300 people were shot in the Šilalė rural district during the German occupation.
The date of the installation of the original monument is unknown, probably in the 1970s. A new monument was erected in the early 1990s by the Jewish Community of Lithuania. That monument was destroyed and the current monument was built between 2011 and 2018.
On September 5, 2000, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 25386).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 199-200.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/10586d1a-7e47-48c9-8bec-73fca3adab28., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 161.