Obj. ID: 32675
Memorials Old and New Monuments at the Killing Site in Bobry, Belarus, 1955, 2015
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
961 Jews from Bobry, killed on October 10, 1941.
Description
The old monument on the killing site and mass grave of the Jews from Bobry is a modest concrete obelisk paved black. It bears a memorial plaque with an inscription in the Russian language.
Ahead of the old monument, there is a new one. It is an upright stele of an irregular shape standing on a granite base that, in turn, stands on a paved piece of ground.
In the upper part of the stele, the menorah is depicted.
The monument bears three non-identical inscriptions: in Belarusian, Russian, and Hebrew. At the bottom of the monument, there is an additional inscription identifying the foundations that erected the monument.
The territory of the monuments is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
Old monument:
In Russian
Память жертвам
фашизма
Здесь захоронены
961 чел. мирных советских
граждан г.п. Бобр
зверски расстрелянных
10 октября 1941 г.
Translation:
Memory to the victims / of fascism / Here are buried / 961 people civilian Soviet / citizens of the urban settlement of Bobr / brutally shot to death / on October 10, 1941.
New monument:
In Belarusin
Ахвярам нацызму.
Тут у Бабрах ў кастрычніку 1941 г.
былі па-зверску расстраляныя
мясцовыя жыхары - 361 яўрэй.
Translation: To the victims of Nazism. / Here in Bobry in October 1941 / were brutally shot to death / local residents - 361 Jews.
In English
Memorial to the victims of Nazism
961 Jews from the village of Bobry
were brutally murdered here
in October 1941.
In Hebrew
לזכר 961 קובנות היהודים הי׳׳ד
מהכפר בוברי
שנרצחו על ידי הנאצים
במקום הזה באוקטובר 1941
Translation: In memory of the Jewish victims, may God avenge their blood / from the village of Bobry / who were killed by the Nazis / on this site in October 1941.
At the bottom of the monument, in English:
This memorial was erected through the efforts of
Belarusian Jewish Community, and thanks to
to the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, UK,
the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, USA,
the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation, USA.
Commissioned by
The old monument is commissioned by the victims' relatives.
The new monument is commissioned by the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation.
sub-set tree: 
At present, the old monument, erected in 1955, has been demolished.
The new stele, which dates back to 2015, is one of the about 100 monuments erected by the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation. All of these monuments have a similar shape and are adorned with a menorah.
Lazarus, Michael, "The Belarus Memorials Project: The Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, The Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, The Geisler Family Foundation," in: Killing Sites – Research and Remembrance (Berlin: Metropol, 2015), 205-207., https://www.academia.edu/11753495/Holocaust_Memorials_in_the_Belarusian_Culture_of_Remembrance (accessed January 16, 2024)
Smilovitsky, Leonid, "Po sledam evreiskikh kladbishch Belarusi: Bobr," Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia," ed. Evgenii Berkovich., https://club.berkovich-zametki.com/?p=47772 (accessed January 25, 2024)