Children of the Vilna Ghetto — Association of Jews of Vilna and vicinity in Israel

The monument commemorates victims of the children’s Aktion, conducted on March 27, 1944, at the “Kailis” and HKP labor camps.

According to Vilna yerushalayim de-lita hareva (p. 18), in 1990 a local gentile who claimed his father was a caretaker of the cemetery told Michael (Moshe) Shapira, who was an engineer working on the monument to the ghetto victims and rearrangement of the graves of the people who died in the ghetto at the time, that children were buried at this place. According to this person, the Germans brought dump trucks full of children's corpses there. Basing on this information, Yeshayahu Epstein erected a monument on this place in 1991. However, there is no proof of mass killing and burial of the children and it seems that the victims of the children’s Aktion were sent to death camps in Poland.