Obj. ID: 58591 Old Holocaust monument near Garliava, Lithuania
Memorial Name
Garliavos žydų žudynių vieta ir kapas - Mass Murder Site and Grave of Garliava Jews
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Garliava rural district, Pakuonis, Aukštoji Panemunė, Veiveriai and others, victims of the Holocaust
Description:
The size of the grave is 600 m2.
The memorial was completely renewed in 2023:
Inscription:
In Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט האבן די
היטלחערישע רוצחים און
זייערע ארטיקע באהעלפער
דעם 1941.08.28 דערמארדעט
247 יידן -
מענער, פרויען, קינדער
Translation: At this place, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers, םמ August 28, 1941, murdered 247 Jews - men, women, children.
In Lithuanian:
Šioje vietoje hitleriniai
galvažudžiai ir jų vietiniai
pagalbininkai 1941.VIII.28
nužudė 247 žydų vaikų,
moterų ir vyrų
Translation: At this place on August 28, 1941, Hitler’s murderers and their local helpers murdered 247 Jewish children, women and men.
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On August 12, the chief of the rural district of Garliava reported to the Kaunas County governor that 285 Jews were living in the rural district. According to the report by Karl Jäger, the Jews from Garliava were executed between August 28 and September 2, 1941. A couple of weeks before the shooting (in mid-August), local police officers and white armbanders herded the Jews of Garliava and surrounding villages to the town’s synagogue. Local police officers and white armbanders forced the Jews from the synagogue to the site of the massacre. There were men, women, and children. The policemen and white armbanders surrounded the murder site and, group by group, led the Jews to the pit. First they killed the men. They were lined up near the ditch and shot in the back from a distance of a few meters.
A memorial was erected in the early 1990s. In 2023, it was completely renovated, see here.
Unique Site Code 16626
Status Protected by the state since 1993-07-08
Jakulytė-Vasil, Milda. Lithuanian Holocaust Atlas (Vilnius: VIlna Gaon State Jewish Museum, 2011), http://holocaustatlas.lt/LT/#a_atlas/search//page/17/item/134/.
Kultūros vertybių registras (Register of the Cultural Heritage), https://kvr.kpd.lt/#/heritage-detail/215fd597-4572-47f5-bc0f-5e461758c6b6.
Levinson, Yosif, Skausmo knyga. The Book of Sorrow. Dos bukh fun veytik. Sefer ha-keev (Vilnius: VAGA Publishers, 1997)., p. 97..