Obj. ID: 58581 Holocaust memorial near Lyduvėnai, Lithuania
Memorial Name
Lyduvėnų žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass Murder Site and Grave of Lyduvėnai Jews
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Lyduvėnai, Ribukai, Šiluva, victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The area is enclosed by a fence consisting of concrete posts connected by metal pipes on two levels. A border can be seen within the area, possibly marking the location of a grave.
Where the monument stands, the border curves in a semicircle, encircling the monument.
The monument is made of granite, with a Star of David carved on top and inscriptions in Yiddish and Lithuanian.
Inscription:
In Yiddish:
דא איז פארגאסן געווארן
דאס בלוט פון 300 יידן -
קינדער, פרויען, מענער,
וועלכע די נאצי-רוצחים און
זייערע מיטהעלפער
האבן גרויזאם דערמארדעט
דעם 08 1941
Translation: Here was spilt the blood of 300 Jews - children, women and men, whom Nazi murderers and their helpers brutally murdered in August 1941.
In Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitleriniai budeliai ir
jų vietiniai talkininkai 1941 08
nužudė apie 300 žydų – vaikų, moterų,
vyrų.
Tebūnie šventas nekaltai žuvusiųjų
atminimas
Translation: At this place, Hitler‘s murderers and their local helpers murdered about 300 Jews – children, women, and men – in August 1941. May the memory of the innocent victims remain sacred.
Commissioned by
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stelle: 95x21x157 cm
In mid-August 1941, Lyduvėnai Jews, as well as Ribukai Jews and some of Šiluva Jews, were forced into a ring-fenced pasture. A few days later, they were marched to a gravel pit and shot. In all, about 300 Jews were shot.
Unique Site Code 11121
Status Listed on register since 1993-02-18
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/#a_atlas/search//page/14/item/215/.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/a686bfb1-8be1-455b-823e-89c779861942.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., 147.