Obj. ID: 58575 Holocaust memorial near Nemakščiai, Lithuania, 1991
Memorial Name
Nemakščių žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass Murder Site and Grave of Nemakščiai Jews
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Nemakščiai, victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The site is located in a small grove, enclosed by a simple segmented fence. Inside stands a large fieldstone engraved with the Star of David. Nearby, on a tall, narrow concrete base, lies an elongated, asymmetrical granite slab. Engraved on it is an inscription in Yiddish and Lithuanian, separated by a line.
Inscription:
In Yiddish:
דא איז פארגאסן געווארן דאס בלוט
פון 543 יידן - קינדער, פרויען, מענער - וועלכע
די נאצי-רוצחים און זייערע מיטהעלפער
האבן גרויזאם דערמארדעט דעם 1941.07-10
Translation: Here was spilt the blood of 543 Jews, children, women and men, whom Nazi murderers and their helpers brutally murdered in July- October 1941.
In Lithuanian:
Čia buvo pralietas 543 žydų – vaikų, moterų,
vyrų – kraujas: juos 1941 VII–X žiauriai nužudė
nacistai ir jų vietiniai talkininkai.
Tebūna šventas nekaltai žuvusiųjų atminimas
Translation: The blood of 543 Jews – children, women and men – who were brutally murdered in July-October 1941 by Nazis and their local helpers was shed here. May the memory of the innocent victims remain sacred.
Commissioned by
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Granite, concrete, metal
The women and children in Nemakščiai, were closed in the temporary ghetto, near the former slaughterhouse. The Nemakščiai ghetto existed until August 22, 1941. The women and children were shot 1 kilometer away from Nemakščiai, near Legotiškė village. The hundred and forty Jewish women and children from Nemakščiai were shot.
Unique site code 2092
Status Protected by state 1992-07-02
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/#a_atlas/search//page/16/item/187/.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/c94aaac2-5de9-4980-89f8-8a17a8b616e2.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 146.