A number of Soviet sculptors have submitted ideas for a memorial monument to be erected on a site in Kaunas, Soviet Lithuania, where tens of thousands of Lithuanian Jews and Jewish deportees from abroad were killed by the Nazis and their local collaborators during World War II. According to reports reaching here today, plans for the memorial are now on exhibition at the museum of art in Vilna, capital of the Lithuanian Soviet Republic. No date has been given on when work on the memorial will start.
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