Obj. ID: 9355
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Liady, Belarus, 1966
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
More than 2,000 Jews of Liady ghetto, killed on April 2, 1942.
Description
The monument at the killing site and the mass grave of the Jews from Liady is shaped like an upright stele that stands on a three-step pedestal. On the surface of the monument, the description in the Russian language is carved.
The territory of the monument is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
In Russian
Здесь
покоятся
останки
более двух тысяч
советских
граждан
женщин, стариков
и детей
замученных
и убитых
фашистами
2 апреля 1942 г.
Вечная память
погибшим
Родные!
Память о Вас
живет и вечно
будет жить
в наших сердцах
Ляды 1966 г.
Translation: Here / lie / the remains / of more than two thousand / Soviet / citizens / women, elderly / and children / tortured / and killed / by the fascists / on April 2, 1942. / Eternal memory to the dead. / Relatives! / The memory of you / is alive and forever / will live / in our hearts / Liady 1966.
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.
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Like many other Holocaust memorials of the Soviet period, the monument in Liady does not mention the victims' nationality.
Tamarkin, Viacheslav, "Glas ubiennykh molchat' ne daёt...," Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia," ed. Evgenii Berkovich., https://berkovich-zametki.com/2015/Zametki/Nomer11_12/Tamarkin1.php (accessed January 25, 2024)