Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
5000 Jewish Holocaust victims from Minsk, killed on March 2, 1942.
Description:
The monument, commemorating the Jewish Holocaust victims from Minsk, is erected at their killing site/mass grave near Melnikayte (former Ratomskaya) Street, at the former sand quarry known popularly as "Yama" (the 'Pit").
The monument is shaped like a black granite obelisk standing on a three-step base. It bears two non-identical inscriptions: in Russian and Yiddish, in Soviet orthography. The Yiddish description is composed by the poet Khaim Maltinski, a disabled war veteran. The murder date in the Yiddish inscription is given according to the Jewish calendar.
At the top of the monument, there is a depiction of the vase with flowers and the wreath.
Inscription
In Russian:
Светлая память
на вечные времена
пяти тысячам
евреев
погибших от рук
лютых врагов
человечества
фашистско-немецких
злодеев.
2 марта
1942 г.
Translation: To the bright memory / for everlasting time / of five thousand / Jews / who perished at the hands of / the fierce enemies / of mankind, / fascist-German / villains. / March 2/ 1942.
In Yiddish, in Soviet orthography:
אליכטיקער אׇנדענק
אפ אייביקע יאׇרנ
די פינפ טויזנט
יידנ – קדוישימ
וואׇס זיינענ דערמאׇרדעט געוואׇרנ
דורכ די הענט פונ די
בלוטיקסטע סאׇנימ
פונ דער מענשהייט –
די פאשיסטיש – דייטשישע
מערדער – טאליאׇנימ.
דעמ 14 אדער
1942 יאר.
Translation: Bright memory / for everlasting time / of five thousand / Jews-martyrs / who were murdered / at the hands of / the bloodiest enemies / of mankind, / fascist-German / murderers-villains. On Adar 14, 1942.
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.
For memorials installed later at the same site, see
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