Vilnius Ghetto Memorial Tablet in Rudninku street - Vilnius (Lithuania)
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The depicted stone memorial tablet, commemorating the existence of infamous Vilnius Ghetto during WWII, you can find on the wall of residential building in Rudninku street (Rudninku gatve) in Vilnius historic centre.
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Location: Lithuania
Date Posted: 10/04/2014
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The depicted stone memorial tablet, commemorating the existence of infamous Vilnius Ghetto during WWII, you can find on the wall of residential building in Rudninku street (Rudninku gatve) in Vilnius historic centre.
The memorial, consisting two granite tablets, depicts plan of WWII Vilnius Ghetto and also marks the time of its WWII existence (September 6, 1941 - September 24, 1943) in Lithuanian an Hebrew language.
The Vilna Ghetto, Vilnius Ghetto, Wilno Ghetto or Vilniaus Getas was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the territory of Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland. During roughly two years of its existence, starvation, disease, street executions, maltreatment and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps reduced the population of the ghetto from an estimated 40 000 to zero. Only several hundred people managed to survive, mostly by hiding in the forests surrounding the town, joining the Soviet partisans, or finding shelter among sympathetic locals. [wiki]
More information about this tragic site you can find here:
Vilna Ghetto
reVILNA
Chronicles of Vilna Ghetto