Obj. ID: 6105
Memorials Memorial plaque at the entrance to the Ghetto in Hrodna (Grodno), Belarus, 1992
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
29,000 prisoners of the Grodno ghetto.
Description:
A bronze plaque is affixed to a corner of a building at the entrance to the First Grodno Ghetto. Next to it, a metal construction in the shape of an arch is installed above a narrow lane. A metal menorah stands on the arch.
The plaque depicts several ghetto houses, from which a column of ghetto prisoners moves toward the observer. The first row of the prisoners’ column “enters” a stylized protruding wall with barbed wire, on which Russian and Hebrew inscriptions are written and a seven-branched menorah depicted. The upper part of a bald human head with tragic eyes is seen above the wall.
Inscription:
In Russian:
Памяти
29 тысяч
узников гетто –
жертв фашизма.
В этом районе в 1941 – 1943 г.
находилось гетто.
Translation: In memory of 29 thousand prisoners of the ghetto – victims of Fascism. The [Grodno] ghetto was situated in this area in 1941–1943.
In Hebrew:
לזכר
29 אלפי
הקדושים
מהגטו
בגרודנה
Translation: In memory of 29 thousand martyrs from the ghetto of Grodna.
Commissioned by
The Jewish Community of Grodno.
6 image(s)
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The plaque at the entrance to the First Ghetto was unveiled on March 12, 1992 (Pavlova; Yarmusik).
According to a photograph by Leonid Smilovitsky, the plaque was damaged and removed in 2018. However, according to the photos from 2019, it was restored and affixed to the same place.
Pavlova, Irina, “Istoriia Grodnenskoi evreiskoi obshchiny v datakh,” Bol’shaia Khoral’naia Sinagoga, 2012, http://www.bhsinagoga.by/index.php/menu-combos/ob-obshchine/92-istoriya-grodnenskoj-evrejskoj-obshchiny-v-datakh (Accessed in 2020, in 2024 the website does not exist).
Yarmusik, E.S., “Evrei v sotsiokul’turnom prostranstve Grodnenshchiny (XIX – nachalo XXI vv.),” in Konfessional’nye i etnicheskie gruppy rossiiskikh regionov v XIX – XXI vv. Sbornik nauchnykh trudov, ed. F.A. Selezniov, vol. 3 (Moscow: Editus, 2021), 146–56.