Entrance to the Small Ghetto in Vilnius

In 1993 was placed a memorial plaque at the entrance to the Small Ghetto in Vilnius. According to the official website of the Center for the Jewish Art «the Small Ghetto in Vilnius was established on September 6-7, 1941 and contained about 11,000 prisoners. Mass Aktionen took place on October 1st (Yom Kippur), 4th, 15th-16th, and 21st. After the murder of the inmates of the Small Ghetto on October 21, old people and the people without documents were brought there from the Large Ghetto. They were killed on October 28, 1941. The plaque was established in 1993 on the initiative of Vilnius Jewish historian Genrikh Agranovsky and financed by the municipality. As a photograph of a similar plaque at the entrance to the Large Ghetto made by the expedition of the Center for Jewish Art in 1993 testifies, the plaque with the plan of the ghettos was added at a later date.» The inscription of the plaque in Lituanian and Yiddish reads:  In this place stood the gate of the Small Ghetto of Vilnius. Through it, from September 6th 1941 to October 29th 1941, more than 11,000 Jews were driven to their deaths. These photos were taken in April 2025 and show some views of the memorial plaque at the entrance to the Little Vilnius Ghetto and an information plaque with the map of the Vilnius Ghetto 1941-1943 and some photos taken at that time.