DARBĖNŲ ŽYDŲ BENDRUOMENĖS ATMINIMO SIENA / DORBIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY MEMORY WALL

DORBIAN JEWISH COMMUNITY MEMORY WALL

After 1941, the life of Darbėnai irreversibly changed. Within three months,
one-third of the population – the entire Jewish community – was murdered.
To commemorate the 550 Jews who perished in the fire of the Holocaust, we want
to build a Memorial Wall dedicated to them.
It will include a foundation stone of the destroyed Darbėnai synagogue, a brief history
of the Jewish community in Darbėnai in both Lithuanian and English
and a separate plaque for each carefully historically verified name of a Jew from Darbėnai.
The Memorial Wall will be located at the mass grave on Palangos Street.
Your contribution to this project is greatly needed.
The estimated cost of the project is twenty thousand euros,
so we kindly ask you to donate and contribute
to the return of the people's names who left their homes against their will.
Donations can be made via PayPal (www.jbfund.lt) with the reference
Darbėnai Jewish Community for the construction of the Memorial Wall
or to the account of Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship Fund:

Beneficiary Name: Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship Fund
Beneficiary Address: Liepiju str. 8, Plateliai, Plunge

City: Plunge
Country: Lithuania

Beneficiary Account (IBAN): LT227182000000071472
Beneficiary Bank: LLC (Limited liability company) „Šiauliu bankas“,
Beneficiary Bank Branch Address: Telshiu str. 1-2A, LT-90162, Plunge

Beneficiary Bank Country: Lithuania
Beneficiary Bank Swift Code: CBSBLT26

The project is implemented by Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship Fund,
Edita Gliožerienė and Darbėnai eldership.

LITVAKŲ ATMINIMO SODAS / LITVAK MEMORIAL GARDEN

An important milestone!
Interactive Litvak Memory Garden!
This garden is a part of the growth of the historical and cultural memory of the exterminated Lithuanian Jews (Litvaks).
The garden is a memory of Eretz Yisrael de Galuta, a land whose Jewish inhabitants have scattered throughout the world, and the rest have been destroyed in the Shoah.
That way, we pay tribute to all who have given us the beginning. That way, we protect their memory.
See the map of Lithuania with apple marks. Green – Standing tree. Red – Waiting for your gardener. Click on the green apple to see photos of trees and apples!
We invite everyone to light the green apple light!

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Dear friends, Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship fund has bought a piece of land about 1 km north from Plateliai. Close to the main road we created a stylized map of Lithuania. We want to mark all former Jewish communities of Lithuania with blacksmith hand made apple trees. Also we want to mark shtetls, were famous Litvaks were born.

We have only start this project. Apple trees in memory of Plateliai and Alsedzhiai Jewish communities already are „planted“. The memorial stone is placed in memory of David Volffsohn in Darbenai area of the map. The Fund does not have enough capability and money to mark all the places. We are inviting all Litvaks to do it together.

A stylized brass leave with a name of a community is attached to every apple tree. Also, brass leave with name of person, who paid for this apple tree, is attached on every apple tree. An apple tree is a symbol of the former Jewish community. And one apple is for a memory of a single family. Family name is written on the apple.

The price of the apple tree, transportation and „planting“ is 650 USD. One apple in memory of a family – 65 USD.

If you want to „plant“ the apple tree in memory of former Jewish community, you can transfer money into Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship fund account with reference „Lita shtetls memory garden“ and write shtetl and family (families) names. I would ask You to repeat shtetl and family names by e-mail eugenijusbunka@gmail.com.

Jakovas Bunka Charity and Sponsorship fund
V.Mačernio str. 6-16, LT-90137 Plungė, Lithuania
Company code: 300570448
LLC „Šiauliu bankas“, Plunge branch
Bank branch address: Telšių str. 1-2A, LT-90162, Plungė, Lithuania
Bank branch phone number: +370 448 77010
IBAN (Account Number): LT227182000000071472
SWIFT code: CBSBLT226