Obj. ID: 56437 Holocaust Monument in Vydrynka (Vydrinka), Belarus, 1950s (?)
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish and non-Jewish civilians of Klimavichy (Klimovichi) and Red Army soldiers, shot by the fascists.
Description
The monument at the killing site and burial place in the village of Vydrynka (Vydrinka) consists of two steles. The front low stele bears a big Soviet five-pointed star. Behind it, a higher stele stands. At the foot of the monument, there is a memorial stone. Two large blocks of an irregular shape lie on two sides of the steles. Before the monument, there is a paved square with three memorial plaques.
Inscription
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Commissioned by
Local authorities.
| Vydrynka (Vydrinka) village
The Germans occupied Klimavichy (Klimovichi) on August 10, 1941. The Jews of the town and nearby localities were shot in a number of murder operations between November 1941 and the spring of 1943 [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. In April 1943, the Germans imprisoned all the children from mixed families, some of them together with their non-Jewish parents. On April 12, the children were shot, together with Roman people, in Vydrinka, not far from the site where most of the non-Jews of Klimavichy (Klimovichi) were murdered.
After the war, the local authority established a monument in Vydrynka (Vydrinka) for all the Soviet citizens murdered in Klimavichy (Klimovichi) during the war. Today it is a place of public commemorative ceremonies.
In Klimavichy (Klimovichi) itself, there are two Holocaust monuments. The first monument was erected at the killing site of the local Jews in the 1950s; in 2018 it was replaced by a new one. The second monument, also dated back to 1950s, was situated in the Jewish cemetery; he was demolished as well and, instead, the new monument was established.
For the image of the monument and Holocaust history, see "Klimovichi",
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621666.