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  Holocaust Monument to Partizans and to Insurgents of the Gantsevichi Ghetto in the Jewish Cemetery in Lenin, Belarus, 1992

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2007

Memorial name

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

The Jews of Lenin who were sent to the Hantsavičy (Gantsevichi) labor camp, the partisans and Itshak Issers, who was murdered after the liquidation of the ghetto.

Description

The monument is erected at the local Jewish cemetery on Yevreiskaia Street. It has the form of a granite stele of an irregular shape standing on a two-step base. The monument's surface bears a depiction of Magen David and a Russian inscription.  

The monument's territory is fenced. 

Inscription

In Russian: 

Погибшим
землякам-партизанам
и восставшим лагеря
Ганцевичи
чьи места захоронения
неизвестны, а также
Ицхака
Исерсса
погибшего
18 августа 1942
борясь с фашистскими
палачами у р. Случь
после ликвидации
гетто 

Еврейская община м. Ленин 
Государства Израиль

TranslationTo the murdered / fellow villagers-partisans, / and rebels of the Han camp, / whose burial places / remain unknown, and to Izkhak /  Iserss, / perished / on August 18, 1942, / fighting against the Fascist / executioners by the Sluch River / after the liquidation of the ghetto. / The Lenin Jewish community / of the State of Israel. 

Commissioned by

The victims' relatives. 

Summary and Remarks
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Holocaust Monument to Partizans and to Insurgents of the Gantsevichi Ghetto in the Jewish Cemetery in Lenin | Unknown
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Lenin was occupied by German troops on July 18, 1941 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. In May 1942, a closed ghetto was created on a street in the village. Jews from surrounding villages were also interned there. When the ghetto was liquidated on August 14, 1942, 750 Jews escaped to the woods in one of the first uprisings of the war. The rest were taken to trenches that had been dug in the field on the Ogarkov property and executed by Germans assisted by local police. According to witnesses interviewed by Yahad, skilled workers were kept alive and separated in a house outside of the ghetto. They were later liberated by the Partisans [The Map of Holocaust by Bullets: Yahad-In Unum].

The commemoration begun in 1970s. Today there are three memorials at the former murder site on the hill in the direction of the village of Steblovichi, which currently lies on the northwestern outskirts of Lenin. One of them (erected in 1973) was replaced with a sculpture of the Mourning Mother in 1989. On August 14, 1992, a number of obelisks, including the present one, were unveiled at the Lenin Jewish cemetery. These obelisks were financed by donations, apparently from family members of the victims residing in various countries. While the monument under discussion is dedicated to the insurgents of Hantsavičy (Gantsevichi) labor camp, the partisans and Itshak Issers, who was murdered after the liquidation of the ghetto, the others commemorate the eight Jewish young Komsomol members, who were murdered shortly after the beginning of the occupationNakhman Oleynik (the first Jewish victim of Lenin, who was murdered in July 1941); and the members of the Gorodetskiy and Flat families who were murdered in November 1941 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Story].

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Vladimir Levin | 2007
Author of description
Liza Schwartz | 2024
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