Monument "To Those Who Died for Freedom in 1923"
Memorial site

The monument is dedicated to those who died during the 1923 military operation to annex the Klaipėda region to Lithuania, called the uprising. It was carried out by a Special Assignment Squad formed from soldiers and officers of the Lithuanian Army and members and volunteers of the Riflemen's Union, and the operation was led by counterintelligence officer Jonas Polovinskas Budrys (1889 in Kaunas - 1964 in New York). During the operation, 12 Lithuanians and three civilians from Klaipėda city died. A solemn funeral of the dead took place in the Klaipėda old city cemetery on January 20, 1923, when the dead riflemen A. Jesaitis, F. Lukšys, rifleman Jonas Pleškys, A. Ubavičius were buried in a common grave. On September 27, 1925, a monument to those who died for freedom was unveiled at the burial site, the author of the monument's design was Adomas Brakas (1886-1952). In 2023, the remains of the organizer of the annexation of Klaipėda Region to Lithuania, the governor of Klaipėda Region, diplomat J. Polovinskas-Budris, and his wife Regina Kašubaitė-Budrienė, brought from Chicago, will be reburied at the monument.