Obj. ID: 53319 Holocaust memorial no. 2 in Tubiniai Forest near Šilalė, Lithuania, 1990s
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 double metal plaque standing on a concrete base. The upper plaque has a Lithuanian inscription and the bottom one - an inscription in Yiddish. 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 500 žydų
vyrų, moterų ir vaikų
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers murdered over 500 Jews – men, women and children – in 1941
Yiddish:
אויף דעם אׇרט האׇבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע אׇרטיקע באהעלפער
אין 1941 דערמאׇרדעט זייערע
500 יידן –
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: In this place, / Hitlerite murderers and / their local helpers, / in 1941, murdered / 500 Jews - / men, women, children.
Commissioned by
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
8 image(s)
width: 59 cm, height: 40 cm
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 installation of the original monument is unknown, probably it happened in the 1970s. A new monument was erected in the early 1990s, by the Jewish Community of Lithuania.
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. 11210).
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/645d4716-b2b2-4ca7-8863-bbc9c508a6a9., https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/ (accessed April 24, 2022)