Obj. ID: 56438
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the killing site (Gorkii St.) in Valozhyn (Volozhin), Belarus, 1945
Memorial Name
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Valozhyn (Volozhin), killed by the fascists.
Description
The monument is erected in Gorkii Street, near the local hospital. It has the shape of a concrete cube, with a memorial plaque. The monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
In Russian
В память
мирным
гражданам, зверски
замученных
гитлерово[с]кими
палачами в годы
Великой Отечественной
войны 1941-1945 гг.
Translation: In memory of / the peaceful / civilians who were bestially / tortured to death / by Hitlerite / hangmen during the years / of the Great Patriotic / War of 1941-1945.
Commissioned by
The local authorities.
sub-set tree: 
Valozhyn (Volozhin) was occupied on June 25, 1941 [Al'tman p.179]. The three murder "Aktions" were carried out in Valozhyn (Volozhin): in August 1941, on November 4, 1941, and on May 10, 1942. The ghetto was liquidated on August 29, 1942 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The present monument was erected in 1945 and commemorates all the Jewish victims of Valozhyn (Volozhin). The Russian inscription includes some orthographic and grammatical mistakes (Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. Today it is a place of memorial ceremonies.
There are other monuments related to the Holocaust in the city:
In 1958 the monument called "Grieving Mother" was erected by the Soviet authorities at the site of the sports ground, the site of the second mass murder of Valozhyn (Volozhin) Jews, that of November 4, 1941.
In 1961 the monument was erected at the site of the German executions of prisoners, close to the former prison, on the hill at the left bank of the Volozhinka River, between Pushkina Street and Kastrychnitskaia (formerly Dubinskaia) Street [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
In 1987 the monument was erected at 53 Pushkin Street, at the initiative of a family of survivors, to commemorate the local Jews, who were killed by the Germans and their accomplices in three mass murders [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
In 2000, the monument was erected in the Jewish cemetery; it commemorates the murdered Jews of Valozhyn (Volozhin) as well as the site of the massacre on May 10, 1942 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
For an image, see
Wikipedia, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Холокост_в_Воложинском_районе#/media/Файл:Ghetto_Valozhyn_4e.jpg.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp.179-180.
"Volozhin,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622365.