Obj. ID: 9351
Memorials New Holocaust Memorial in Kuranets (Kurenets), Belarus, 1990s
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who/What is Commemorated?
1,040 Jews from Kuranets (Kurenets), killed on September 8, 1942.
Description
The monument was erected in the 1990s at the killing site and a mass grave of the Kuranets (Kurenets) Jews at the northern edge of the town. It is shaped like a small granite stele standing on a concrete podium which in turn is set on the paved area to which the steps lead. There are Magen David and a Russian inscription on the monument.
In 2003, a plaque with Russian, Hebrew, and English inscriptions was affixed to the fence of the monument. The whole territory of the mass grave is fenced off by chains.
Inscription
On the monument (1990s), in Russian:
Здесь покоятся 1040
человек мирных жителей
еврейской национальности
м. Куренец зверски заму-
ченных фашистскими
захватчиками 8.09.1942
Никто не забыт
Ничто не забыто
Translation: Here rest 1040 / people peaceful citizens / of the Jewish ethnicity / of the town of Kurenets brutally / tortured by the fascist / invaders on 8.09.1942 / Nobody is forgotten / Nothing is forgotten.
On the plaque (2003):
In Hebrew
קדושי קורניץ שנספו בשואה
לא ימוש זכרם מקרבנו עד עולם ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
Translation: The martyrs of Kuranets who perished in the Holocaust / The memory of them will never leave us, may their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
In Russin
Святые жертвы, погибшие в катастрофе еврейства
Не сгинет и не сгладится память среди живущих
Пусть земля нм [им] будет пухом
Translation: The martyrs who perished in the Jewish Holocaust / The memory among the living will not vanish or be obliterated / May the earth rest lightly upon them.
In Hebrew
לוח הנצחה זה נתרם ע"י שלום וורדה יורן
לזכר הוריהם חנה ושמואל שניצר ז"ל
שנספו בשואה ונקברו פה בקבר אחים
Translation: This memorial plaque was donated by Shalom and Varda Yoran / in memory of their parents Hanna and Shmuel Schnitzer of blessed memory / who perished in the Holocaust and were buried here in a mass grave.
In English
This memorial plaque was donated by
Shalom and Varda Yoran in memory of their parents
Hanna and Shmuel Schnitzer of blessed memory
who perished in the Holocaust and were buried here in a mass grave
In Hebrew
[List of victims]
In Russian
[List of victims]
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.
sub-set tree: 
Kuranets (Kurenets) was occupied on June 25, 1941 [Al'tman 498]. When the occupation regime in the town had been firmly established, there was a flurry of anti-Jewish decrees. No ghetto was established in Kuranets (Kurenets) [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
On September 9 (or 8), 1942, the Jewish community of Kuranets (Kurenets) was liquidated at the northern edge of the town [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories]. In 1955, the first monument commemorating the victims was set up in this place [Botvinnik, 63]. In the 1990s, the monument under discussion was erected near the old one. In 2003, a memorial plaque was affixed to the fence of the monument [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
Today the stele is a place of commemorative ceremonies.
There is another Holocaust memorial in the town. It is erected near the former Jewish cemetery and dates back to the 1990s.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp.498-490.
"Kurzeniec,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622367.
Marat, Botvinnik, Pam'atniki Genotsida Evreev Belarusi (Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, 2000), p.63.