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Obj. ID: 8340
Jewish Funerary Art
  Monument at the Mass grave in the Jewish Cemetery in Čerykaŭ (Cherikov), Belarus, 1940s

© NADAV Foundation, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2010

Memorial name

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust victims from Čerykaŭ (Cherikov). 

Description

The three-part monument is erected at the mass grave of the Holocaust victims from Čerykaŭ (Cherikov) in the Jewish cemetery to which their remains were reinterred.

All three parts of the monument stand on a massive podium. On the left and right two-stepped sections, 78 victims' names are inscribed. The central three-stepped section bears a dedicatory inscription in Russian as well as a Soviet five-pointed star and a branch.  

Inscription

On the central section: 

In Russian 

Вечная память
дорогим
незабываемым
родителям братьям
сестрам 
родственникам
и землякам 
трагически погибшим 
в 1941-1944 годы
от рук
немецко-фашистских
захватчиков

TranslationTo the eternal memory / of our beloved, / unforgettable / parents, brothers, / sisters, / relatives, / and fellow countrymen / who were tragically killed / in 1941-1944 / at the hands of / the German-fascist invaders. 

On the right section: 

In Russian 

Не забудь!
[The list of victims]

Translation: Don't forget! / [The list of victims]. 

On the left section: 

In Russian 

Не забудь!
[The list of victims]

Translation: Don't forget! / [The list of victims]. 

Commissioned by

The victims' relatives. 

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Monument at the Mass grave in the Jewish Cemetery in Čerykaŭ (Cherikov) | Unknown
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History/Provenance

The Germans occupied Čerykaŭ (Cherikov) on July 17, 1941 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. The first Aktion was carried out in the town in August 1941. A detachment of Sonderkommando 7b shot a group of Jews. Other Aktione occurred in late October or early November 1941 when, according to different sources, the German security forces and the local police gathered the Jews in a club in the town to inform them that they would be resettled. The Jews were then escorted on foot to a site about 1km north of the town near the mill, where a ditch had been prepared. Two Germans shot the Jews in the ditch in small groups [The Map of Holocaust by Bullets: Yahad-In Unum]. 

After the war, the remains of the murdered Jews were transferred to the Jewish cemetery. There, in the late 1940s, the present monument was erected. Now it is a place of the commemorative ceremonies.

In the same years, another Holocaust monument at the Mostovoye Ravine murder site near Čerykaŭ (Cherikov) was established [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. 

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Vladimir Levin | 2010
Author of description
Liza Schwartz | 2024
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