Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
29,000 prisoners of the Grodno ghetto.
Description:
A bronze plaque is affixed to a corner of a building at the entrance to the First Grodno Ghetto. Next to it, a metal construction in the shape of an arch is installed above a narrow lane. A metal menorah stands on the arch.
The plaque depicts several ghetto houses, from which a column of ghetto prisoners moves toward the observer. The first row of the prisoners’ column “enters” a stylized protruding wall with barbed wire, on which Russian and Hebrew inscriptions are written and a seven-branched menorah depicted. The upper part of a bald human head with tragic eyes is seen above the wall.
Inscription:
In Russian:
Памяти
29 тысяч
узников гетто –
жертв фашизма.
В этом районе в 1941 – 1943 г.
находилось гетто.
Translation: In memory of 29 thousand prisoners of the ghetto – victims of Fascism. The [Grodno] ghetto was situated in this area in 1941–1943.
In Hebrew:
לזכר
29 אלפי
הקדושים
מהגטו
בגרודנה
Translation: In memory of 29 thousand martyrs from the ghetto of Grodna.
Commissioned by
The Jewish Community of Grodno.
J | Jew, image of
H | Human Figure | Human head
G | Ghetto
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