Monument to General Jonas Žemaitis

Vytauto Street, Palanga (in the square opposite the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Palanga) Sculptor J. Jagėla
Jonas Žemaitis (1909–1954) was a Lithuanian military officer, resistance fighter, partisan commander, and brigadier general.
The monument to General Jonas Žemaitis-Vytautas, chairman of the Presidium of the Council of the Lithuanian Freedom Fighters’ Movement, who was born in Palanga, was unveiled in 2004.
The initiator of its construction was Petras Gabrėnas, former chairman of the Palanga branch of the Lithuanian Political Prisoners and Deportees Association.
The granite monument depicts a Lithuanian partisan tent, with a small tree planted in the opening at the base symbolizing the forests that sheltered and hid the partisans.
In 2009, J. Žemaitis was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Palanga.