Obj. ID: 53262
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site at Minsk-Mogilev Road near Berezino, Belarus, 1980s (?)
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
250 Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Berezino.
Description:
The monument is situated at the killing site/mass grave at Minsk-Mogilev Road, near the town of Berezino. It is shaped like an upright stele that stands on a piedistal that, in turn, is placed on a massive podium to which lead several steps.
The monument bears a Soviet five-pointed star and a Russian inscription.
The monument is erected on the masive podium.
Inscription
In Russian:
Здесь захоронены
250 советских граждан
расстреляных оккупантами
в 1942 г.
Вечная память
жертвам фашизма
Translation: Here lie / 250 Soviet citizens, / shot to death by occupiers / in 1942. / Eternal memory / to the victims of fascism.
Commissioned by
Probably, the victims' relatives.
sub-set tree:
The Germans captured Berezino on July 3, 1941. Together with the local Jews, all Jews from the surrounding neighborhoods were concentrated in the town’s ghetto [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
Different sources indicate that between 150 and 230 young Jewish men from Berezino were shot during the murder operation of August - September 1941 (according to other sources, at the beginning of 1942). Fearful of Jewish resistance, the Germans took all the young men some six kilometers out of the town and there, between the villages of Novoselki and Pogost, 50 meters from the Minsk-Mogilev Highway, killed them. They then announced to the local population that they had liquidated a partisan unit [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The present monument commemorates the site of this mass killing. Today it is a place of mourning ceremonies.