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  Monument to the Ghetto Prisoners in Kamyanec, Belarus, 2009

© Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, Photographer: Smilovitsky, Leonid, 2019

Memorial name:

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

Prisoners of the ghetto in Kamyanec in 1941-1942. 

Description

The monument 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 with two spikelets underneath 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 long strips on their right and left sides. 

Inscription

In Belarusian: 

Ахвярам нацызму

Памяці яўрэяў - вязняў
фашысцкага гета ў
г. Камянцы ў 1941-1942 гадах.

Translation: To the victims of Nazism / To the memory of Jews - prisoners / of the Nazi ghetto in / the town of Kamyanec in 1941-1942. 


In English: 

To the memory of Jews - 
prisoners of the Nazi ghetto
in Kamyanec in 1941-1942.

In Hebrew:

לזכרון קורבנות הנאצים -
יהודים אשר שהו בגטו של עיר קאמנץ
בשנים 1941-1942
ת * נ* צ * ב * ה 

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.

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Name/Title
Monument to the Ghetto Prisoners in Kamianets | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Date
2009
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Granite
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Sources

Astashenia, Andrei. "Dostoprimechatel'nosti: Pamiatnik zhertvam Katastrofy (Holokosta) v Kamyanece," Kamyanec i okrestnosti., https://kamenets.by/pamyatnik-zhertvam-katastrofy-holokosta-v-kamence/ (accessed January 18, 2024)

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)
Type
Documenter
Leonid Smilovitsky | 2019
Author of description
Liza Schwartz | 2024
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