Obj. ID: 34285
Jewish Funerary Art  Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Piaski, Belarus, 2009

Memorial name:

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

60 Jews of Piaski, killed in the autumn of 1942.

Description

The monument is an upright stele of an irregular shape standing on a granite base that, in turn, stands on a 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 long strips on their right and left sides. 

Inscription

In Belarusian: 

Ахвярам нацызму

Тут у восень 1942 года
былі зверскі закатаваны
60 яўрэяў вёскі Пескі

 Translation: To the victims of Nazism / Here in the autumn of 1942 / were brutally tortured / 60 Jews of the village of Piaski. 

In English:  

To the everlasting memory of 
the Victims of the Holocaust 

60 Jews from Peski were
brutally murdered here in
Autumn of 1942

In Hebrew: 

לזכרון קורבנות הנאצים 

  במקום זה בסתיו 1942 נרצחו באכזריות
60 יהודים - תושבי כפר פסקי

Translation: In memory of the Nazi victims / At this site in the autumn of 1941 were brutally murdered / 60 Jews - residents of the village of Piaski. 

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.