The SOUL of the Shtetl extinguished.

In loving memory of those who were murdered in Mazeikiai (Mazheik or Mozheik, in Yiddish) in the war years, 'zichronam livracha' (Hebrew for 'Blessed Be Their Memories').

IN THEIR HONOUR

And of all those who had lived their lives in Mazeikiai and were buried there before the war years, 'zichronam livracha,' most of whose graves were desecrated and destroyed. 

Just outside Mazeikiai city limits, on the road to Telsiai, there is a sign at a sand path leading into the woods where the Old Cemetery and the Holocaust Memorial at the Mass Grave can be found ~ the site is near the Venta River ~

(courtesy Stan Ravinsky 08.2000)

A new sign was put up, sometime after August 2000

(courtesy Benzi Kahana)

The Holocaust Memorial and mass grave, next to the Old Mazeikiai Cemetery (The mass killings at this site took place on Sunday, August 3rd 1941 - 10th of Av 5701 -actual day of 9th Av fast delayed from Shabbat to Sunday- and the women on Saturday, August 9th 1941 - 16th of Av 5701) :

(courtesy Gilda and Bob Kurtzman)

The following picture is of the Memorial Rock in front of the old Mazeikiai Cemetery. Part of what remains of the old cemetery lies behind the Memorial. 

(courtesy Gilda and Bob Kurtzman)

Memorial Rock and part of the old cemetery from a different angle :

(courtesy Stan Ravinsky)

(courtesy Benzi Kahana)

Above and below : surviving stones from the old Mazeikiai Jewish Cemetery.

(courtesy Gilda and Bob Kurtzman)

Three  head-stones, intact, in the grass and weeds - on two of them the names are legible, the 3rd name is more difficult to read) ( see    Ravinsky - Return to Lithuania)

Shlomo Bar Elchanan Friedlander z"l :

(courtesy Stan Ravinsky)

 Lotta Rabinovitz z"l  :

(courtesy Stan Ravinsky)

Rachel (...) z"l

(courtesy Stan Ravinsky)

Head-stone of Henne-Leah Leibowitz-Friedman Z"L who lived in Mažeikiai and died there in 1930 (see Lubavitsch ~ in this picture her husband Berre Lubavitsch is at the grave-side together with daughters Mirjasha, Tirze who emigrated to South Africa, and Esther with her husband Yoseph Itzikson).

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