Img. ID: 473692
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Berezne and surroundings, who were killed here on August 25, 1942
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in Berezne. It is two almost symmetric black marble slabs. The left slab bears an image of a torch and a Russian inscription, which does not mention the ethnicity of the Victims. The right slab bears a Magen David, a Menorah, and a Hebrew inscription.
Inscriptions
Russian
На этом месте
25 августа 1942 г.
немецко-фашистскими
оккупантами
были расстреляны
3680
советских граждан
Translation: At this place, 3,680 Soviet citizens were shot by German fascist occupiers on August 25, 1942
Hebrew
לזכר קדושי ברז’נה והסביבה
שנרצחו ונקברו חיים ביום י”ב אלול
תש”ב, אוג’ 1942
ע”י הגרמנים הנאצים ועוזריהם ימ”ש
”ואתה את דמינו אוסף בכדים
כי אין לו אוסף מלבדן”
נ. אלתרמן
קול דמי אחינו זועק מאדמה זו [Gen. 4:10]
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of Berezne who were murdered and buried alive on 12 Elul 5702, August 1942 by Nazi Germans and their helpers. May their names be obliterated. // "And our blood in small vases you collected, Because no one else would, only you alone" N. Alterman // The voice of our brothers' blood cries out from this ground [paraphrase to Gen. 4:10]// May their souls be bounded in the bundle of life
Commissioned by
to be determined