Img. ID: 324981

Memorial name:

No official name. 

Who is commemorated?

860 Jewish Holocaust victims from Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy), killed on March 11, 1942. 

Description:

The monument is erected at the killing site/mass grave of Radoshkovichi Jews at Krasnoarmejskaja Street. 

It is composed of two identical gravestones standing on a massive three-step base. The gravestones bear two non-identical inscriptions: the right one in Russian and the left one in Hebrew. Two stars of David are carved on the Hebrew tombstone. 

A fence surrounds the monument. On it, there is a plaque indicating that the present monument stands at the military burial site protected by law.

Inscriptions:

On the right tombstone: 

In Russian

Вечная память 
860 евреям
зверски убитым
немецкими 
палачами 
11.3.1942 г.
Радошковичи 

Translation: Eternal memory / to the 860 Jews / who were brutally killed / by the German slaughterers / 11.3.1942 / Radoshkovichi.

On the left tombstone: 

In Hebrew

פה 
נחים 860 יהודי
רדושקוביצ׳
שנהרגו ונשרפו
בידי
אכירי גרמניה
כב אדר התש״ב
תנצבה (= תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים)

Translation: Here / lie 860 Jews / of Radoshkovichi, / who were killed and burned to death / by / the cruel Germans / 22 Adar 5702 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life. 

On the plaque on the fance: 

In Belarusian

Рзспублiка Беларусь

Воiнскае пахаванне

Прычыненне шкоды
караецца па
закону

[no.?]

Translation: The Republic of Belarus / The military burial site / Infliction of harm / is punishable by law. 

Commissioned by

The victims' relatives.