Img. ID: 39326
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
1600 Jewish Holocaust victims from Dzyarzhynsk (Dzerzhinsk), killed on October 21, 1941.
Description:
The monument, commemorating the Jewish Holocaust victims from Dzyarzhynsk (Dzerzhinsk), is erected at their killing site/mass grave on Pervomayskaya Street.
It is shaped like a black granite obelisk standing on a three-step base. The monument bears two non-identical inscriptions: in Yiddish and Russian. The inscriptions are enclosed by a wreath. An additional Russian inscription is carved at the top of the monument. On its back, the sculptor's name is engraved.
The monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
At the monument's top:
In Russian
В жизни
и смерти неразлучимы
Translation: Inseparable in life and death.
At the monument's central part:
In Yiddish:
[...]
In Russian
Здесь лежат 1600
граждан города
Дзержинска
погибшие от руки
фашистских убийц
Translation: Here lie 1,600 / civilians of the town / of Dzerzhinsk, / who perished at the hands / of the fascist murderers.
On the monument's base:
In Russian
21 октября
1941 г.
Translation: October 21, 1941.
On the monument's back:
In Russian
Спришен
Минск
Translation: Sprishen / Minsk.
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.