Obj. ID: 34221
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site (Gastello St.) in Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy), Belarus, 1947
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is commemorated?
340 Jewish Holocaust victims from Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy), killed on March 7, 1943.
Description:
The monument is erected at the killing site/mass grave on Gastello Street. It is composed of two identical gravestones standing on a massive three-step base. The gravestones bear two non-identical inscriptions: the right one in Russian and the left one in Hebrew. Two stars of David are carved on the Hebrew tombstone.
There is a date of the monument's erection on its base.
A fence surrounds the monument.
Inscriptions:
On the right tombstone:
In Russian
Вечная память
340 евреям
зверски убитым
немецкими
палачами
7.3.1943 г.
Радошковичи
Translation: Eternal memory / to the 340 Jews / who were brutally killed / by the German slaughterer / 7.3.1943 /Radoshkovichi.
On the left tombstone:
In Hebrew
פה
נחים 340 יהודי
רדושקוביצ׳
שנהרגו ונשרפו
בידי אכירי גרמניה
א אדר ב שנה ה׳תש׳׳ג
תנצבה (= תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים)
Translation: Here/ lie 340 Jews / of Radoshkovichi, / who were killed and burned to death / by the cruel Germans / 1 Adar, 5703 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
On the base:
1947
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.
12 image(s)
sub-set tree:
| 20 Gastello St.
German forces captured Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy) on June 26, 1941. Since then, several mass shootings of Jews have taken place. The present monument commemorates the mass murder operation that was carried out on March 7, 1943, when the remaining Jews of the Radoszkowicze ghetto were shot or burned to death in a barn in the vicinity of Radoszkowicze. The total number of victims was about 340 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The commemoration began in 1946, when the first monument, in memory of the Holocaust victims of March 11, 1942, was erected at the corner of zavulak Polacki and ulitsa 8-go Marta [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The monument at Gastello Street was erected a year later and has an almost identical shape [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. Today, it is a place of commemorative ceremonies.
"Execution of Jews in Radoshkovichi,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/radoshkovichi-radoszkowicze-radoshkovits-rada-scaron-kovi-y-minsk-belarus.1418.
"Radoszkowice,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622208.