Obj. ID: 9372
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Maladzechna (Molodechno), Belarus, 1961
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is commemorated?
Jews of Molodechno shot to death by the Nazis in 1941-1945.
Description:
The monument is shaped like an upright stele standing on a concrete podium. It is painted in a bright blue color.
There are two plaques on the monument. The upper plaque has a dedication text while another (a modern one) indicates that the present monument stands at the military burial site protected by law. On the lower part of the monument there is an additional plaque with the Russian and Hebrew descriptions.
The two metal screws stick out from the stele identifying the spot, where once another plaque was affixed
The surrounding territory of the monument is well-maintained and resembles a small alley.
Inscriptions:
On the upper plaque, in Russian:
В память мирных
граждан города
Молодечно, расстрелянных
фашистами в годы
Великой Отечественной
войны 1941-1945 годы
Translation: In memory of the Molodechno civilians shot to death by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.
On the lower plaque, in Belarusian:
Рзспублiка Беларусь
Воiнскае пахаванне
Прычыненне шкоды
караецца па
закону
6600
Translation: The Republic of Belarus / The military burial site / Infliction of harm / is punishable by law / 6600.
On the plaque in the lower part of the monument:
In Russian
В этой
братской могиле
захоронены евреи
города Молодечно
замученные и
расстрелянные
немецкими
фашистами
и их пособниками
полицаями в
1941-1942 годах
Translation: In this / mass grave / Jews of the town of Molodechno are buried / who were tortured / and shot / by the German / Nazis / and their collaborators / policemen in / 1941-1942.
In Hebrew
אחנו היקרים
כאן נטמנו
מעיר מולודצנו
קידוש השם
שנהרג על
בשנות
למינ''נם 1941-1942
Translation: Here are buried our dear brothers from the town of Molodechno who were killed sanctifying God's name in the years of 1941-1942.
Commissioned by
Unknown
sub-set tree: 
The monument is situated 1.5 km from Maladzechna (Molodechno), near the Maladzechna (Molodechno)-Vileiika Road.
It stands on the mass grave of 600 Jews, who were shot to death at the end of 1941 and in October 1942. However, there is no any mention of Jews in the dedicative plaque's text.
The monument was reconstructed in 1975 [Tamara Vershitskaya, "Molodechno'" in Kholokost na territorii SSSR, ed. Il'ya, Al'tman (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), p. 616].
For an image, see
Wikipedia, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Холокост_в_Молодечненском_районе#/media/Файл:I_-_2022-01-30T141149.335.jpg.
Tamara Vershitskaya, "Molodechno'" in Kholokost na territorii SSSR, ed. Il'ya, Al'tman (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), 616