Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of the (Bialynici) Belynichi region shot to death by the Nazis on December 12, 1941.
Description:
The Holocaust monument in the Jewish cemetery in Belynichi marks the reinterment site of the seventy local Jews who were shot to death on December 12, 1941, by the Nazis in the tract of Mkha River, near Zadrutskaia Sloboda village.
The monument has the shape of a broken column that stands on a three-step pedestal.
On the pedestal, an epitaph is carved. As opposed to the historical information, it states that all 1200 victims of the execution are buried there.
The monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription:
In Russian:
Здесь покоятся
1200 жертв фашизма,
женщины, старики и дети
зверски расстрелянные
12 декабря 1941 года.
Translation: At this site rest / the 1200 victims of fascism / women, elderly and children / brutally shot to death / on December 12, 1941.
Commissioned by
Victims' relatives [see here].