Obj. ID: 32649
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Daŭhinava (Dolginovo), Belarus, 2003
Memorial name
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust victims from Daŭhinava (Dolginovo), killed in March-May 1942.
Description
The Holocaust monument is erected at the killing site in the Jewish Cemetery in Daŭhinava (Dolginovo). It has the shape of a stele standing on a base that, in turn, stands on the paved platform.
The monument bears Magen David and three non-identical inscriptions in Hebrew, English, and Russian.
The territory of the monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
In Hebrew:
יזכור הי
מצבה ליהודי דולהינוב הקדושים
שנרצחו בתקופת השואה ה׳י׳ד [= ה' יקום דמם]
על ידי הנאצים ועוזריהם ימ׳ש [= ימח שמם]
בחודשי ניסן אייר סיון התש׳ב
מרס אפריל מאי 1942
ת׳נ׳צ׳ב׳ה [= תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
לעולם לא נשכח
Translation: God will remember / A monument to the Jewish martyrs of Daŭhinava (Dolginovo) / who were killed during the Holocaust, may God avenge their blood / by the Nazis and their helpers, may their names be obliterated / in the months of Nisan, Iyar, Sivan 5,702 / March, April, May 1942. / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.'/ We will never forget.
In English:
In memory
of the
Dolhinov
Jews
massacred by the Nazis
during the Holocaust
in March-May 1942
We will never forget
In Russian:
Вечная память
евреям Долгинова,
зверски убитым нацистами
и их пособниками
в период Холокоста в марте-мае 1942 г.
Мы никогда не забудем.
07.2003 г.
Translation: Everlasting memory / to the Daŭhinava (Dolginovo) Jews / brutally killed by the Nazis / and their collaborators / during the Holocaust in March - May 1942. / We will never forget. / 07. 2003.
Commissioned by
The community of Daŭhinava (Dolginovo) natives in Israel (Irgun yots'e Dolhinov be-Yisra'el).
sub-set tree:
The German army entered Daŭhinava (Dolginovo) on June 26, 1941, i.e., on the fifth day of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Anti-Jewish orders followed, and in the fall of 1941 (according to some other accounts in March-April 1942), the ghetto was established. Small-scale shootings, as well as mass killings, took place [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The memorialization began immediately after the war when an improvised monument with a menorah and Magen David was erected at the local Jewish cemetery by survivors. Later, the local authorities "Sovietized" the monument: they eliminated from it all the Jewish symbols and affixed a new Russian-language plaque, the inscription of which did not specify the victims' nationality.
In the same period, this monument was established south of the cemetery, at another killing, where the murder took place in 1942 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. the monument had the shape of a tombstone with the following Russian inscription:
На этом месте
заживо сожжены в годы
Великой Отечественной войны
немецко-фашистскими
захватчиками
мирные жители села
Долгиново
Translation: At this place / the peaceful residents of the village of Daŭhinava (Dolginovo) were burnt alive by the German-fascist invaders during the Great Patriotic War.
In 2001, members of Dolhinov Landsmannschaft in Israel and around the world initiated a project to "restore the Jewish cemetery" in Daŭhinava (Dolginovo). The project included the erection of the fence around the cemetery and the erection of new monuments instead of the old ones. In 2003, both old monuments were replaced with new ones. [The Untold Stories, Dolhinov Cemetery Project].
The memorial is a place of commemorative ceremonies.
"Dolhinow,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622372-Dolhinow.
"Execution of Jews in Dolginovo,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/dolginovo-dolhinov-dolguinovo-dolhinow-dolne-minsk-belarus.1363.
For images of the monuments before 2003, see
Dolhinov Cemetery Project, https://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/dolhinov/d_pages/d_cemetery2001.html (accessed February 21, 2024)