Obj. ID: 44743
Memorials Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Rakov, Belarus, 2005
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Rakov, Belarus
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
112 Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Rakov.
Description:
The monument is situated in the Jewish cemetery, on a paved platform.
It is a granite rock of irregular shape. It bears a Star of David in its upper part, followed by almost identical Belarusian, Hebrew, and English inscriptions.
Inscription:
Belarusian:
Ахвярам нацызму
Тут у восенi 1941 зверскi закатаваны
112 яўрэяў вескi Ракаў.
Translation: To victims of Nazism / Here in the autumn of 1941 brutally torched to death / 112 Jews of the village Rakov.
Hebrew:
במקום זה
תש"ב בשנת [!]
נרצחו 112 יהודי ראקוב
לזכרון עולם של קורבנות הנאצים
Translation: In this place in [5]702 were murdered 112 Jews of Rakov. In everlasting memory of the victims of Nazism.
English:
Here
In the year 1941
112 Jews from Rakov
were brutally murdered
To the everlasting memory of the
Victims of the Holocaust.
ת'נ'צ'ב'ה'
Translation: May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
A contribution from Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation
made this project possible.
Commissioned by
Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation
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112 Jewish men, prisoners of the ghetto in Rakov, were murdered on September 29, 1941, Rosh HaShanah, near the village of Buzuny. Later they were reinterred in the Jewish cemetery.
The monument was unveiled on July 12, 2005, in the presence of 80 members of the Belarusian Jewish Community.
"Pamiatnik zhertvam Kholokosta v Rakove," Rossiiskii evreiskii Kongress, July 12, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20170405113532/http://base.ijc.ru/new/site.aspx?STID=245090&SECTIONID=247012&IID=288732 (accessed December 10, 2023)
"Rakaŭ Ghetto,"
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakaŭ_Ghetto.