Obj. ID: 56493
Memorials Memorial to victims of Nazism in Valozhyn (Volozhin), Belarus, 1961
Memorial Name
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Valozhyn (Volozhin) and people of other nationalities, killed by the fascists.
Description
The monument is erected on the hill at the left bank of the Volozhinka River, between Pushkina Street and Kastrychnitskaia (formerly Dubinskaia) Street. It is shaped in a typical Soviet style, like a figure of a woman standing in full growth on a concrete platform. In her arms, there is supposedly a spear on which a flag with a wreath are lying. Later, a memorial plaque was added.
Inscription
According to Yad Vashem, there is a memorial plaque with the inscription in Belarusian:
Translation: A grave of victims of fascism. Buried here are 1,000 civilians who were shot by the fascists during the occupation. Erected in 1961.
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.
In 1961 the monument under discussion 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]. Today the monument is a place of commemorative 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 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].
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.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp. 179-180..
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.