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ALYTUS, LITHUANIA |
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Broken
Mogen David is the central monument at the memorial in the
forest outside Olita (Alytus). Hundreds of Jews of the
shtetl were murdered on the first Sunday of September 1941. |
The Jews of Olite (Alytus)
were all marched into the forest outside the shtetl. And on
the first Sunday of September 1941 they were all murdered.
About one hundred and twenty Jews were killed on that day.
Their bodies were left for years where they died.
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Finally when the Baltic States declared their independence
when the Russians left, honor was given to their remains by
being placed in a memorial among the trees of the
forest--all that remained of the bodies were placed in nine
mass graves under silver pyramids. |
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ARIOGALA (ROGALE), LITHUANIA |
Lithuanian and Yiddish
monuments at the
mass grave site
in Ariogala (Rogale). |
The monument in
Yiddish
states that here was spilt
the blood of 662 Jewish
men, women and children
in August 1941.
They were from Ariogala
and vicinity, and they were
murdered by local Lithuanians. |
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BABTAI (BOBT), LITHUANIA |
Mass grave
site located in the woods of Babtai (Bobt), approximately
two kilometres from the town, on the right side of the road
in the direction of Memel (Klaipeda) on the bank of the
river Nevi-aza. |
On July 17 -
Aug. 31, 1941,
ninety-one Jewish men, women and children from Babtai and
Vandziogala were killed here. |
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BIRZAI, LITHUANIA |
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This stone was put up by
the (few surviving) Jews of Birzai when they returned to
Birzai after the war. |
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JURBARKAS, LITHUANIA |
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KAUNAS (KOVNO), LITHUANIA |
Monument in the old
Jewish cemetery to the victims of the first mass killing of
the Jews of Kaunas on 26 June 1941. |
Monument for the Jews
who died in the Kaunas ghetto between 1941-44,
at the still-active, new Jewish cemetery in Kaunas.
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Children's memorial
outside of synagogue in Kaunas. |
Monument to the Kaunas
Jewish ghetto cemetery. |
Monument at the
entrance to the Jewish ghetto. |
Monument at
the 4th Fort. |
Monument at
the 7th Fort. |
At the 9th Fort--
"Eternal remembrance of the victims of Fascism." |
Monument at
the 9th Fort. Erected in 1984, 105 feet high. |
Memorial at the 9th
Fort, in remembrance of the 30,000 Jews (prob.
50,000-80,000) from Lithuania and other European countries
who were massacred there. |
9th Fort. |
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Tower at 9th Fort. |
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Tunnel at 9th Fort.
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KEDAINIAI (KEIDAN),
LITHUANIA |
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Memorial at mass grave
site
where the Jews of Kedainiai,
Seta, and Zeimiai were massacred
on 5 Elul 5701 (28 August 1941).
The figure of 2076 on the plaque
is erroneous. It is estimated that at least
3,200 Jews died in this location. |
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KELME, LITHUANIA |
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According to the
United States Holocaust Institute, 2000 Jews of Kelme were
murdered in July 1941.
The memorial
indicates "On July 26,1941, 485 Jews from Kelme and
surroundings have been murdered."
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KRAKES (KROK), LITHUANIA |
Lithuanian and Yiddish
monuments
at the mass grave site in Krakes (Krok),
located about 1.5 kilometres from Krakes
in the village of Pashtinukai, about
500 meters to the left of the road to Rasein. |
On 10 Elul 1941 (Sept.
2, 1941), the Jews of Krakes were murdered here, along with
Jews from Kedainiai, Ariogala, Baisogala, Gudziunai,
Grinkiskis, Patsiunel, Dotnuva, and other places. Number of
victims 1125 Jewish men, women and children. The date of
Sept. 5, 1941 on the Lithuanian monument is incorrect. |
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KUPISKIS, LITHUANIA
(photos
in the top row courtesy of Kupiskis ShtetLinks) |
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The
Kupiskis Wall of Memory Holocaust Memorial
is located on the wall of
the old synagogue,
which is now the town library.
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Memorials to
the Jews of Kupiskis killed in the Holocaust
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Inscription reads
in part:
"In Remembrance: In everlasting memory of the Jews of
Kupiskis, Men, Women and Children who were tortured and
murdered by the Nazis and their accomplices, in the
Summer of 1941..."
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To the memory of
the victims
of the Lithuanian, Jewish genocide
?? and men of
other nationalities,
by the Nazis with their local helpers
exterminated in
1941.
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The inscription
talks about the
Hitlerite murderers and their
local assistants in 1941--
about 1000 Kupishoker Jews were killed--
men, women and children.
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LOZDZIEJE
(LAZDIJAI), LITHUANIA |
Marker directing
visitors to the site of
the mass grave. |
Entrance to the
Lozdzieje memorial site. |
"On this spot, the
Hitler collaborators on 3 Nov 1941murdered 1,535 Jews--men,
women, children of Lazdijai..." |
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PANERIAI (PONAR), LITHUANIA |
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PANEVEZYS, LITHUANIA |
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PLUNGE, LITHUANIA |
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PUSALOTAS, LITHUANIA |
This plaque was put up
in July 2005 at the site of the old shul, now used as a
flour mill. |
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ROKISKIS, LITHUANIA
(courtesy
of Rokiskis ShtetLinks) |
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SAKIAI, LITHUANIA |
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Site
of mass graves in Sakiai,
1941-1944. |
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SALANTAI, LITHUANIA |
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SAULIAI, LITHUANIA |
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SETA (SHAT), LITHUANIA |
Monument is on the
grounds of where the Jewish cemetery once stood. The Jews of
Seta were not murdered on this site (see Keidan). Yarzheit
date for the Jews of Seta is 5 Elul 5701 (28 August 1941). |
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SIMNAS, LITHUANIA |
Memorial to the Jewish
community of Simnas. |
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SKUODAS, LITHUANIA |
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SVENCIONYS (SWIECANY),
LITHUANIA |
This memorial is inscribed with
the names of some of
the seventeen Svencionys area shtetls where Jews were
murdered. |
These are for the local Jews who were
murdered elsewhere, whose place of burial is unknown. |
This memorial names the rest of the seventeen area shtetls
from the Svencionys area. |
The inscription reads:
"Here lie 8000 Jews from Svencionys and its vicinity, who
were murdered by the German Nazis and their local assistants
on the
15th and 16th of Tishrei 5702 (October 7th and 8th 1941)." |
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VANDZIOGALA, LITHUANIA |
Memorial in the forest
Boreko,
approximately one kilometre from Vandziogala near the Jewish
cemetery. |
Between July 11-31,
1941 and between Aug. 28 - Sept. 2, 1941, 305 Jewish men,
women and children were killed here. |
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VIDUKLE, LITHUANIA |
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"On this place the
Hilteristic murderers and their local collaborators killed
about one-hundred women and children in August 1941." |
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VILIJAMPOLE, LITHUANIA |
Holocaust memorial
near
Vilijampole Jewish cemetery. |
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VILNIUS (VILNA), LITHUANIA |
"Here, on the site of
the former Judenrat (Vilnius Ghetto Council). We remember
thousands of murdered Lithuanian Jews and say:
'This should never happen again!'"
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Plaque and map at
site of Vilna ghetto.
"On this site stood
the tower of the small Vilna ghetto. Through it, from
6 September 1941 until the 29th of October 1941, 11,000 Jews
were sent to their death."
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Vilnius ghetto
memorial |
This is a memorial to
leaders and members of the social democratic Jewish Labor
Bund, which was founded in Vilna in October 1897. It is
meant to replace pre-war memorial stones that were placed on
the graves of Arkady Kremer, Dr. Pavel Rozental, Sofia
(Chaya Sarah) Stupel-Kahan and Mordkhe Virgili-Kahan, the
grave of the Yiddish writer and Bundist A. Waiter and those
of the martyrs of the police assault on Vilna workers in
1905. The text is in Yiddish and Lithuanian. This monument
was dedicated in 1991. |
Memorial to Sugihara
who, from his diplomatic office in Helsinki, Finland, saved
the lives of thousands of Polish Jews fleeing
German-occupied Poland. The memorial to him now stands
outside the Holocaust Museum in Vilnius. |
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