Obj. ID: 56449
Memorials Memorial to “Righteous Among the Nations” in Babruisk (Bobruisk), Belarus, 2005
Memorial Name
"The Righteous Among the Nations Alley" Memorial Complex.
Who/What is Commemorated?
“Righteous Among the Nations” from Babruisk (Bobruisk).
Description
The monument is located on Socialisticheskaia Street, in the round paved square to which leads an identically paved path. On both sides of the path, there are small memorial stones with the names of the local “Righteous Among the Nations.” There is a spruce near each stone. The monument itself takes the form of two upright slabs of irregular shape that are linked with the eight thin metal strips on which the Belarusian and Hebrew non-identical texts are inscribed. On the back sides of the slabs, there are two plaques with the Russian and Belarussian inscriptions indicating the names of people and the organizations thanks to which the monument was erected.
Inscription
On the anterior side of the monument, in Belarusian:
Праведнікам народаў свету
Людзям
якія з рызыкай для ўласнага жыцця
ратавалі яўрэяў ў гады вайны
Translation: To the “Righteous Among the Nations” / To the people / who, at the risk of their own life, / saved the Jews during the war years.
In Hebrew:
לאנשים, שבסכנה
לחיים אישיים הצילו
את היהודים בשנות
המלחמה
Translation: To the people who, at the risk / of their own life, saved / the Jews during the years / of war.
On the other side of the monument, in Russian:
Израильский культурно-
информационный центр;
АЕРК [Американский еврейский объединённый распределительный комитет] "Джойнт";
Еврейское агенство
для Израиля
В Республике Беларусь;
Семья Айзенман, Р. Бецер,
О. Бабаев, Б. Ципорин.
Д. Марголин, Я. Горелик,
Г. Кромская, Н. Джемедюк,
Е. Блувол, М. Благутина,
С. Левина, Л. Зеликман
Translation: The Israeli Cultural / and Information Center; AJDC [American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee] "Joint"; / The Jewish Agency / for Israel / in the Republic of Belarus; / [Donors' names].
In Belarusian:
1. Бабруйская гарадская
яўрэйская суполка;
2. Галандскі міратворчы
яўрэйскі фонд;
3. Іўдзейская рэлігійная
суполка г. Бабруйска,
фонд "Ор-Авнер" г. Масква;
4. Асабістыя ахвяраванні.
Translation: 1. The Babruisk Urban / Jewish community; / 2. The Dutch Peace-keeping / Jewish Fund; / 3. The Jewish Religious / Community of Babruisk, / The "Or-Avner" Fund, Moscow; / 4. Personal donations.
Commissioned by
The Israeli Cultural and Information Center, the Joint, the Jewish Agency for Israel in the Republic of Belarus, the Babruisk Urban Jewish community, the Dutch Peace-keeping Jewish Fund, the Jewish Religious Community of Babruisk, the "Or-Avner" Fund, the private persons.
sub-set tree: 
| 119 Socialisticheskaia St.
Babruisk (Bobruisk) was occupied on June 28, 1941 [Al'tman, 91]. In early August of the same year, a ghetto was established. From the first weeks, the German troops murdered large groups of Jews in unknown places. The majority of Babruisk (Bobruisk) Jewry was murdered in two big operations carried out in September and November 1941 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The monument under discussion was erected on July 3, 2005, in honor of the 60th anniversary of Babruisk (Bobruisk) liberation [probelarus.by]. It is a part of "The Righteous Among the Nations Alley" Memorial Complex that is dedicated to 17 people of Babruisk (Bobruisk) and Babruisk (Bobruisk) region who saved the Jews during the war years [glusk.by]. The monument was designed by architects Galina Levina and Leonid Levin, winners of the State Prize of the Republic of Belarus [probelarus.by]. Today the monument is a place of commemorative ceremonies.
There are other monuments in the town and its vicinity related to the Holocaust events.
Approximately in the 1950s, a monument in the Jewish cemetery in Babruisk (Bobruisk) was erected.
In the 1960s, the first monument at the Kamenka killing site was established. In the 1970s it was replaced by a new one. In 1992 the additional monument was erected at the site.
In the 1960s, another monument was established in the Babruisk (Bobruisk) Jewish cemetery.
In 2008, a monument to the prisoners of the Babruisk (Bobruisk) Ghetto was erected at Bakhapova Street.
In 2021, "From Life to Life" monument was unveiled at 31 Chongarskaya Street.
"Alley of the Righteous among the Nations in Bobruisk", probelarus. by., https://probelarus.by/belarus/sight/sadovo-parkovaya/1490633515.html (accessed March 12, 2025)
"Bobruysk,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621631.
For the original images, see
Wikipedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Holocaust_memorials_in_Babruysk.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp.91-92.
"Semnadtzatiy kamen'. Na Allee Pravednikov narodov mira v Bobryisk'e yvekovechili imena gluschanok Arhiptzovyh," glusk.by, https://www.glusk.by/belarus-pomnit/semnadcatyj-kamen-na-allee-pravednikov-narodov-mira-v-bobrujske-uvekovechili-imena-gluschanok-arxipcovyx/ (accessed March 12, 2025)