Obj. ID: 34216
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Pukhovichy, Belarus, 2018
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
1260 Jews from Pukhavichy and Maryina Gorka, killed in September 1941.
Description
The monument at the killing site of the Jews from Pukhavichy and Maryina Gorka is an upright stele of an irregular shape, standing on a granite base.
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 long strips on their right and left sides.
Inscription
In Belarusian:
Ахвярам нацызму.
Тут, у верасні 1941 года, былі расстраляны 1260 яўрэяў
з гарадскога паселка Мар'іна Горка і з вескі Пухавічы.
Вы назаўседы ў нашай памяцi.
Translation: To the victims of Nazism. / Here, in September 1941, were shot to death 1260 Jews / from the town of Maryina Gorka and the village of Pukhavichy. / You are forever in our memory.
In English:
To the victims of Nazism.
1260 Jews from the town of Maryina Gorka
and the village of Pukhavichy
were brutally murdered here
in September 1941.
In Hebrew:
לזכר 1260 קורבנות היהודים
מהעיר מרינה הורקה
והכפשר פוחוביצ'י הי''ד
שנרצחו על ידי הנאצים
במקום הזה
בספטמבר 1941
ת . נ. צ . ב. ה
Translation: In memory of 1260 Jewish victims / from the town of Maryina Gorka / and the village of Pukhavichy, may God avenge their blood / who were killed by the Nazis / at this site / in September 1941 / 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.
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The monument at the killing site and the mass grave of the 1260 Jews from Pukhavichy and Maryina Gorka is erected in the very heart of Pukhavichy, near the Village Council.
Smilovitskii, Leonid, "Po sledam evreiskikh kladbishch Belarusi: Pukhavichy," Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia," ed. Evgenii Berkovich., https://club.berkovich-zametki.com/?p=53876 (accessed January 15, 2024)