Obj. ID: 34371
Memorials Monument at the Killing Site in Myadzyel, Belarus, 1993
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
21 Jews of Myadzyel murdered by Nazis and their collaborators in September 1941.
Description:
The monument is shaped like a granite stele placed on a concrete base. Before it lies a concrete-paved rectangular to which leads a gravel bordered path. At the top of the monument, there is the Star of David, followed by the historical narrative text and the list of victims.
Inscription:
In Belarusian:
З жнiўня 1941г. не далёка ад
гэтага месца нямецка-фашысцкiмi
захопнiкамi i ix памагатымi
расстреляны 21 мiрны жыхар
гарадскога пасёлка Мядзел
яўрэйскай нацыянальнасцi
List of 21 victims:
Альпяровiч Бонька
Альпяровiч Бэрл
Бампi Гiлэл
Гардон Мiхаэл
Гардон Лiпка
Капялевіч Ёсе-Лэйб
Касчэўскі Абрам-Шмуэль
Кугель Залман
Нароцкі Зэлік
Фінкельштэйн Гершэн
Ходас Залман
Ходас Рувім
Ходас Мотка Бэркавіч
Ходас Мотка Лэйбавіч
Ходас Моша-Ёська
Ходас Абрам-Лэйб
Школьнік Мэір
Шуаг Ісраэль
Шульман Юдэл
Эстрын Хаім-Шолам
Яноўскі Ёсе-Лэйб
Translation: In September 1941, not far from this place, 21 Jewish civilians of the urban settlement of Myadzyel were shot to death by the German-fascist invaders and their collaborators.
Commissioned by
Israel descendants of the local Jews.
2 image(s)
sub-set tree:
In June 1941, the Myadzyel region was occupied by the German forces. From the summer of 1941 to September 21, 1944, more than 100 Jews were murdered in the Myadzyel ghetto. During these years, about 150 Jews were also killed on the outskirts of the town.
The monument is situated in the Mha River tract near the Minsk-Naroch road. It commemorates the killing site of the 21 Jews who were shot to death in the tract of the Mha River, not far from Myadzyel. No other monuments in the vicinity of the town are known.
"Myadzyel," Rossiiskaia Evreiskaiia Entsiklopediia., https://rujen.ru/index.php/МЯДЕЛЬ (accessed December 19, 2023)
Tamara Vershitskaya, "Myadzyel'" in Kholokost na territorii SSSR, ed. Il'ya, Al'tman (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), 633