Unfortunately this plaque has been stolen after 1998
and Zenonas Gegeckas, secretary of the group Pamjat (= to remember) from Pakruojis
By courtesy of Yad Vashem, Israel: Lists of perished Lithuanian Soviet citizens, murdered by German fascists in 1941. Compiled by Bakutis and Reinardas. click here
O God, full of mercy, Who dwells on high, Defender of widows and Father
of orphans, grant proper rest on the wings of the Divine Presence- in the lofty
levels of the holy and the pure ones, who shine like the glow of the firmament-
for the souls of millions of Jews, men, women and children, who were brutally
and tortuously murdered, gassed and cremated, or buried alive, for the
sanctification of Your Name. Holy and pure were they all, among them scholars
and saints as majestic in Torah as the cedars of Lebanon. May the Master of
Mercy shelter them in the shelter of His wings for eternity and may He bind
their souls in the Bond of Life. May their resting place be in the Garden of
Eden. Hashem is their heritage. May He remember their martyrdom, and may their
righteousness stand in merit for us and all Israel. Earth, do not cover their
blood! Do not silence their cries! In their merit may the scattered ones of