Obj. ID: 53320 Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Upyna, Lithuania, 1990s
Memorial Name
Who is Commemorated?
About 100 Jews of Upyna
Description:
The monument is located in the corner of the Jewish cemetery of Upyna. The monument is s granite stele with a cut top right corner. It stands on a concrete base and has identical inscriptions in Lithuanian, Yiddish, and Hebrew. The Star of David is depicted above the inscriptions. The grave is marked by concrete curbs.
Inscription:
Lithuanian:
Masinių žudynių vieta
Šioje vietoje hitleriniai
žudikai ir jų vietiniai
pagalbininkai 1941 m. nužudė
apie 100 vyrų
Translation: A mass killing site / At this place Hitler’s / murderers and their local / helpers killed about 100 men in 1941
Yiddish:
אויף דעם אׇרט האׇבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע אׇרטיקע באהעלפער אין 1941
דערמאׇרדעט 100 יידן – מענער
Translation: In this place, Hitlerite murderers and their local helpers, in 1941, murdered 100 Jews - men.
Hebrew:
במקום הזה הרוצחים
ההיטלריסטיים ועוזריהם
המקומיים בשנת 1941 השמידו
100 יהודים - גברים
Translation: In this place, Hitlerite murderers and their local helpers, in 1941, murdered 100 Jews - men.
Commissioned by
Jewish Community of Lithuania
The Lithuanian Jewish Community
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About 100 Jewish men were shot in Petkalnis village in the Upyna rural district. Detailed information about the mass murder and date is unknown.
The date of installation of the first monument is unknown, probably in the 1970s. A new monument was erected in the early 1990s, by the Jewish Community of Lithuania.
On December 19, 1993, the monument was registered in the State Cultural Register of the Republic of Lithuania as a site of national importance (no. 11213).
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), p. 202.
Kultūros vertybių registras, https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/9848A1EB-EC21-470D-A87C-F0B3B53519AD., 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. 160.