Obj. ID: 8330
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Čavusy (Chausy), Belarus, 1955
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust victims from Čavusy (Chausy), killed on October 9, 1941.
Description:
The monument, commemorating the Jewish Holocaust victims from Čavusy (Chausy), is erected in the local Jewish cemetry where their remains were reburied. It is shaped like a massive upright stele and bears two non-identical inscriptions in Yiddish and Russian.
The territory of the monument is fenced.
Inscription
In Yiddish:
[...]
In Russian:
Память о вас дорогие
погибшие 9 октября 1941 г.
От рук немецких фашистов
вечно будет жить в наших сердцах
Родные и друзья
Translation: The memory of you, / dear perished at the hand of German fascists on October 9, 1941, / will live forever in our hearts. / Relatives and friends.
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives and friends.
16 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Čavusy (Chausy) was occupied on July 15, 1941 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. In all, around 675 Jews were murdered there. All the executions were carried out by Sonderkommando 7b, a sub unit of Einsatzgruppe The execution site was located near the former Kommandantur [The Map of Holocaust by Bullets: Yahad-In Unum].
In 1955, Abram Molochnikov, Abram Sommerov, and other local Jews raised the sum of 50,000 rubles from relatives of the victims, transferred the victims’ remains to the Jewish cemetery in Čavusy (Chausy), and erected the present monument at the site.
Former residents of Čavusy (Chausy) hold a memorial ceremony for the victims annually [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. Till today, the monument is the place of commemorative ceremonies.
"Chausy,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621505.
"Execution of Jews in Chavusy,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/chavusy-chausy-mogilev-belarus.377.