Obj. ID: 56464
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the killing site (53 Pushkin St.) in Valozhyn (Volozhin), Belarus,1987
Memorial Name
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Valozhyn (Volozhin), killed in 1941-1942.
Description
The monument is erected at 53 Pushkin Street. It consists of two simple lying slabs bearing Yiddish, Russian, and Hebrew inscriptions. The territory of the monument is paved and surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
Left slab in Yiddish:
מיין היים שטאט
וואלאזין
איך שטיי געפרארין
ביים קבר פון די קדושים
וועלכע זענען דערמארדעט אנד
פארפייניגט על קידוש השם
מיר האבען געשוירען נישט
פארגעסין נישט.פארגעבין
מרים בת יוסף רבקה קאגאן
Translation: My native town of Volozhin, I bow before the memory of the holy victims murdered and martyred for the sanctification of the Holy Name. We have sworn not to forget and not to forgive. Miryam, daughter of Yosef and Rivka Kagan [translation according to Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
In Russian:
Памятник евреям г. Воложина,
замученных фашистами.
3000 мужчин, женщин и детей
было уничтожены фашистами
и их пособниками
в 1941, мае 1942 и сентябре 1942 годов.
Священна их память
Translation: Monument to the Jews of the town of Volozhin / who were martyred by the fascists. / 3,000 men, women, and children / were annihilated by the fascists / and their accomplices / in 1941, May 1943 and in September 1942. / Their memory is holy.
Right slab:
In Hebrew
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
דמי אחיך צועקים אלי [בראשית ד, י]
ה' יקום דמם
העיר וולוזין בית ל3000 יהודים
לפני השואה קהילת הקודש
עיר של חכמים וקדושים
אנשים נשים וטף שנהרגו
ושנטבחו ושנשרפו ושנחנקו
על ידי הנאצים הארורים
נדבת
מקס צוקיר ורעיתו מרים ... קגן
Translation: May their souls be bound in the bundle of life. Your brother's blood cries out to me [Gen. 4:10]. May God avenge their blood. Volozhin, before the Holocaust, home to 3,000 Jews, a holy community, a town of wise men, and of holy martyrs, men, women and infants who were killed, slaughtered, burned, and strangled by the accursed Nazis. Donation of Max Cuker and his wife Miryam Kagan [translation according to Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
Commissioned by
Cuker family, Israel.
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.
The monument under discussion was erected in 1987 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]. Today it is a place of memorial ceremonies.
There are other monuments related to the Holocaust in the city:
In 1945, a monument was erected on present-day Gorkii Street, near the local hospital. It commemorates all the Jewish victims of Valozhyn (Volozhin) [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
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 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
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].
The monument erected in 2000 overlooks the six mass graves where the murdered Jews were buried in 1941-1942, as well as the site of the third massacre, that of May 10, 1942.
For an image, see
Wikipedia, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Ghetto_Valozhyn_3c.jpg.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp.179-180..
"Volozhyn,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622365-Wolozyn.