Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Holocaust victims of the Belynichi region.
Description:
The monument at the killing site of the Belynichi Jews is erected in the tract of Mkha River, near an older monument dedicated to the local Holocaust victims.
It is surrounded by the post-war cemetery.
The monument has the shape of an upright granite stele that stands on a two-step pedestal. It bears an epitaph that doesn't refer to Jews as the Nazi's victims.
The territory of the monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription:
In Russian:
Здесь захоронено
более 1500
мирных жителей
Белынического района,
расстрелянных
фашистскими захватчиками
12 декабря 1941 года.
Вечная память погибшим!
Translation: More than 1500 civilians of the Belynichi region, shot to death by the fascist invaders on December 12, 1941, are buried here. Eternal memory to the dead!
Commissioned by
The government of the Republic of Belarus [Smilovitsky].
| In the Mkha Rover tract, near Zadrutskaia Sloboda village