Obj. ID: 33200
Jewish Funerary Art Monument at the Killing Site in Luzhki, Belarus, 2008
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
916 Jews of Luzhki, killed in the Summer of 1942.
Description
The monument at the killing site of the Jews from Luzhki is an upright stele of an irregular shape, standing on a granite base, that is placed on the paved podium.
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 inscriptions are framed with a long strip on their left side.
The territory of the monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
In Belarusian:
Ахвярам нацызму.
Тут захаваны 916 яўрэяў,
зверскi закатаваныя
летам 1942 года
Translation: To the victims of Nazism. / Here 916 Jews are buried / brutally tortured to death / in the Summer of 1942.
In English:
To the everlasting
memory of the
Victims of the Holocaust
916 Jews brutally
murdered in Summer
of 1942 rest in peace here
In Hebrew:
לזכרון קורבנות הנאצים
במקום זה נקברו 916 יהודים
אשר נרצחו באכזריות בקיץ 1942
ת * נ * צ * ב * ה
Translation: In memory of the Jewish victims of the Nazis / At this site are buried 916 Jews / who were brutally killed in the Summer of 1942 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
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 Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation.
sub-set tree:
The Jews of Luzhki were brutally shot to death on August 1, 1942.
Gennadii Vinnitsa, "Luzhki" in Kholokost na territorii SSSR, ed. Il'ya, Al'tman (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), 541-542.
"Sharkovshchina (ili Luzhki, Sharkovshina)," Belarus Holocaust Memorials Project., https://www.belarusmemorials.com/memorials/vitsyebsk/sharkovschina/ (accessed January 15, 2024)
Smilovitskii, Leonid, "Po sledam evreiskikh kladbishch Belarusi: Luzhki," Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia," ed. Evgenii Berkovich, https://club.berkovich-zametki.com/?p=43925 (accessed January 15, 2024)