Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
750 Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Ilia.
Description:
The monument is erected at the killing site and the mass grave of the Ilia Jews in the town center, at Revolyutsionaya Street. It consists of three upright steles of different sizes: the right stele was erected in 1957, the central and the left ones in 1992. They all bear Russian inscriptions. In addition, there is Magen David on the central and the left steles.
All steals stand on the podium to which three steps are leading.
The territory of the monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscriptions:
On the central stele:
In Russian
На этом месте
в 1942 году
немецко-фашистские
захватчики
расстреляли
750 человек
советских
граждан
Translation: At this place, in 1942, 750 Soviet citizens were shot to death by the German-fascist invaders.
On the right stele:
In Russian
[The incomplete list of victims]
On the left stele:
In Russian
От партизан Соломянского
Файвы
и Фогельмана Симхи
Translation: From partisans Solomiansky / Faiva / and Fogelman Simha.
Commissioned by
Probably, the victims' relatives.