Obj. ID: 44749
Jewish Funerary Art Old Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Klimavičy, Belarus, 1950s
To the main object: Jewish Cemetery in Klimovichi, Belarus
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Klimavičy, killed on November 6, 1941, and the reburied Jews from the Melovaya Gora murder site.
Description:
The monument is shaped like a traditional Jewish tombstone and sits atop a massive concrete podium. At the upper part of it, the Magen David is carved.
The rough surface of the monument bears a marble plaque with an additional Magen David at the top. On the plaque, there are also two not-identical inscriptions: in Yiddish and Russian.
A fence surrounds the monument.
Inscription
On the plaque:
in Yiddish
דא ליגן די קארבאנעס
פין גיטלירס פאשיזמ [ם]
אמגקומענע פין די
מערדערישע הענט
טז חשון 1941 יאר
Translation: Here lie victims of Hitler's Fascism, who died of murderous hands / 16 Hishvan 1941
In Russian
Здесь похоронены
жертвы погибшие от
рук фашистских палачей
6-го ноября 1941 г.
От скорбящих родных
Translation: Here are buried / victims who died at / the hands of the fascist executioners / on November 6, 1941. / From the grieving relatives.
Within the Magen David on the plaque, in Hebrew:
פ׳׳נ
Translation: Here lies.
Commissioned by
The victims' relative.
2 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp.424-425.
"Klimovichi" and "Murder story of Klimovichi Jews at the Klimovichi Jewish Cemetry,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621666-Klimovichi, https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/killing-site/14626390-Klimovichi-Jewish-Cemetery.