Obj. ID: 33269
Memorials New Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Kruhlae (Krugloe), Belarus, 2014
To the main object: Jewish Cemetery in Kruglae, Belarus
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
515 Jewish Holocaust victims from Kruhlae (Krugloe), Tietierino (Teterino), and Chat'kava (Khat'kovo).
Description:
The monument is erected in the Kruhlae (Krugloe) Jewish cemetery, where the remains of the Jewish Holocaust victims from Kruhlae (Krugloe), Tietierino (Teterino), and Chat'kava (Khat’kovo) have been reburied. It is shaped like a granite stle with the six-pointed star at the upper part and the menorah at its lower part.
The obelisk bears a Russian inscription.
Inscription:
In Russian
Здесь
покоится прах 515 евреев
жителей местечек Круглое,
Тетеринo, Хатьково
замученных и расстрелянных
фашистами во время
Великой Отечественной
войны
1941–1945 годов
Вечная память о вас
в сердцах земляков
Translation: Here / lie the remains / of 515 Jews / from the villages of Krugloe), / Teterino, Khat’kovo, / who were tortured to death and shot / by the fascists during / the Great Patriotic / War, / 1941-1945. / Eternal memory to you / in the hearts of fellow countrymen.
Commissioned by
The Peace Fund.
sub-set tree: 
The Germans occupied Krugloye on July 8, 1941. According to one witness, there were isolated shootings of the Jews from the beginning of the occupation [The Map of Holocaust by Bullets: Yahad-In Unum]. As for the mass killings, on September 15 (or, according to another source, at the beginning of October), 1941 most of the Jewish men of the town were shot. Local Jewish women, as well as the ones from the places in the area, were forced into a ghetto (consisting of two houses surrounded by a fence) on Moprovskaya Street, on the outskirts of Krugloye. In early October 1941 28 Jewish women were shot on the grounds that they had engaged in "provocation." Small groups of the ghetto inmates were shot also in the vicinity of the flax factory and, probably, near the Jewish cemetery. In May or June 1942 the Krugloye ghetto was liquidated and the last 200 Jews were shot [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
In the 1959 relatives of the murdered Jews from Kruhlae (Krugloe) and the vicinity exhumed the bodies of the victims and buried them in the local Jewish cemetery. On that place, the monument was erected in 1962. However, in 2014 this memorial was replaced by the present one with the assistence of the Peace Fund [Smilovitskii]. In 2007 another memorial was erected at this site by the Lazarus Foundation [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
In the vicinity there are some other memorials dedicated to the victims of fascism.
The site is the place of commemorative ceremonies.
"Krugloe,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/#village/krugloye-krugloe-mogilev-belarus.690.
"Krugloe,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621547-Krugloye.
Smilovitsky, Leonid, "Po sledam evreiskikh kladbishch Belarusi: Krugloe'," Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia," ed. Evgenii Berkovich., https://club.berkovich-zametki.com/?p=47966 (accessed November 26, 2024)