Memorial to the murdered Poles

In 1990, on the initiative of Helena Pasierbska (1921-2010), a former member of the Polish underground in Vilnius, and with the support of the Lithuanian Union of Poles, a wooden cross and a tomb-altar were erected in Paneriai in memory of the Poles who were killed there. A monument (architect Jaunutis Makariūnas) was designed on the same site and unveiled in 2000. According to Dr Monika Tomkiewicz, between 1,500 and 2,000 Poles were killed in Paneriai while, while prof. Piotr Niwiński and Helena Pasierbska argue that between 2,000 and 20,000 Poles could have been killed.