Obj. ID: 34223
Memorials Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Rodnya, Belarus, 2010
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
About 300 Jews from Rodnya, killed in the autumn of 1941.
Description
The monument on the killing site of the Jews from Rodnya is an upright stele of an irregular shape standing on a granite base that, in turn, stands on a paved podium.
In the upper part of the stele, the menorah is depicted.
The monument bears three non-identical inscriptions: in Belarusian, Russian, and Hebrew.
The inscriptions are framed with long strips on their right and left sides. At the bottom of the monument, there is an additional inscription identifying the foundations that erected the monument.
Inscription
In Belarusian:
Ахвярам нацызму.
Тут у восень 1941 г. былі
зверску закатаваны каля
300 яўрэяў вёскі Родня.
Translation: To the victims of Nazism. / Here In autumn 1941 were / brutally tortured to death about / 300 Jews of the village Rodnya.
In English:
To the everlasting memory of
the Victims of the Holocaust.
About 300 Jews from Rodnya were
brutally murdered here
in Autumn of 1941.
In Hebrew:
לזכר קורבנות הנאצים
במקום זה בסתיו 1941 נרצחו באכזריות
קרוב ל 300 יהודי כפר רודניה
יהיה זכרם ברוך
ת * נ * צ * ב * ה
Translation: In memory of the Fascists' victims / On this site in autumn 1941 were brutally killed / about 300 Jews of the Rodnya village / May their memory be blessed / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
At the bottom of the monument, in English:
This memorial was erected through the efforts of
Belarusian Jewish Community and thanks to
to the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, UK,
the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, USA,
the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation, USA.
Commissioned by
The Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation.
3 image(s)
sub-set tree:
The monument is erected on the killing site and mass grave of the Rodnya Jews, on the edge of the Jewish cemetery. It is one of the about 100 monuments erected by the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation. All of these monuments have a similar shape and are adorned with a menorah.
Lazarus, Michael, "The Belarus Memorials Project: The Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, The Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, The Geisler Family Foundation," in: Killing Sites – Research and Remembrance (Berlin: Metropol, 2015), 205-207., https://www.academia.edu/11753495/Holocaust_Memorials_in_the_Belarusian_Culture_of_Remembrance (accessed January 16, 2024)
Smilovitskii, Leonid, "Po sledam evreiskikh kladbishch Belarusi: Rodnya," Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia", ed. Evgenii Berkovich., https://club.berkovich-zametki.com/?p=54856 (accessed January 10, 2024)