Obj. ID: 34370 Holocaust Monument near the Killing Site in Myadzyel, Belarus, 2000s (?)
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
60 Jewish victims from Myadzel, shot to death on September 21, 1942.
Description
The monument, erected in the approximate vicinity of the Myadzel Jews' killing site, is a massive boulder of irregular shape. It bears a memorial plaque with a Belarusian inscription.
Inscription
In Belarusian:
Паблiзу гэтага месца 21 верасня
1942 года нямецка-фашысткімі
захопнікамі растраляны 60 мірных
жыхароў стврыкоў, жанчын і дзяцей
яурэйскай нацыянальнасці
з гарадскога паселка Мядзел
Translation: Near this place, on September 21, 1942, 60 peaceful inhabitants of the Jewish nationality from the urban settlement of Myadzel - elderly, women, and children - were shot to death by German fascist invaders.
Commissioned by
Probably, the victims' relatives.
The territory was occupied from July 2, 1941, till July 7, 1944 [Vershitskaya]. The ghetto was created only at the end of 1941 [Yad Vashem].
Throughout the years of occupation, there were several mass killings [Vershitskaya, p.633]. The present monument commemorates the approximate place of one of such mass actions near Batorino Lake.
"Miadzioł," The Ghettos Encyclopedia (Yad Vashem project)., https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=588 (accessed February 6, 2024)
Tamara Vershitskaya, "Myadzyel'" in Kholokost na territorii SSSR, ed. Il'ya, Al'tman (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), 633