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MONUMENT STONE TO MARK DESTROYED STONE SYNAGOGUES

Monuments and sculptures

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Akmenė district

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On 18 October 2020, a commemoration ceremony to honour the victims of the Akmenė District Holocaust took place in Akmenė.  On the initiative of Diana and Marijus Lopaičiai and Arūnas Ostrauskis, director of the Akmenė History Museum, a memorial stone was unveiled in memory of the destroyed Akmenė synagogues at the Akmenė city square on the site of the former Akmenė synagogues. The author of the memorial stone is sculptor Antanas Adomaitis.

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