Obj. ID: 58582 Holocaust memorial in the railway station of Viduklė, Lithuania
Memorial Name
Nemakščių ir Viduklės žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass Murder Site and Grave of Nemakščiai and Viduklė Jews
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Viduklė and Nemakščiai, victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The site marking the massacre has been moved from its original location due to the construction of agricultural buildings. Railroad tracks and private property run nearby. The burial site is enclosed by a weathered metal fence made of crossed rods. A gate has been built on the side opposite the monument.
The monument is made of polished granite; at the top is a Star of David, beneath which is text in Yiddish and Lithuanian.
Inscription:
In Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן די
היטלערישע רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
דעם 1941.07 דערמארדעט
בערך 200 יידישע מענער
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers, in July 1941, murdered about 200 Jewish men.
In Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitleriniai
budeliai ir jų vietiniai
talkininkai 1941 VII nužudė
apie 200 žydų vyrų.
Tebūna šventas nekaltai žuvusiųjų atminimas
Translation: At this place Hitlerite murderers and their local helpers murdered about 200 Jewish men in 1941. May the memory of the innocent victims remain sacred.
Commissioned by
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The Jewish men of Viduklė were separated from their families and isolated in a place near the railway station. Be to, kartu su vidukliškiais geležinkelio stotyje dirbo ir iš Nemakščių atvaromi žydai vyrai. Little data remains regarding the massacre of the prisoners of the men’s ghetto at the Viduklė railway station. It is not clear when it happened; it is not mentioned in the Jäger report. The men might have been murdered at the beginning of August 1941, although it might have been carried out at the end of July. Two hundred and forty-three Jewish men were murdered near the Viduklė railway station.”
Unique site code 2093
Status Listed on register since 1992-07-02
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/#a_atlas/search//page/12/item/121/.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/fb2b07d9-0a81-4dad-97cf-c701419c2ed1.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 146.