Obj. ID: 57037 Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Glusk, Belarus, 1953
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Glusk, who were shot at Kostyolni Val in 1941-1944.
Description:
The monument is situated in the Glusk Jewish cemetery and marks the reburial site of the victims. It has the form of an obelisk standing on a two-stepped base. The monument bears a memorial plaque with a Russian ethnically neutral inscription and a plaque that dates back to the 2000s and indicates that the present obelisk stands at the military burial site protected by law. From the right and left sides of the monument, there are three additional tombstones commemorating individual Jews of Glusk who were murdered during the Holocaust.
The territory of the monument is fenced off by chains.
Inscription
On a memorial plaque (1953), in Russian:
Здесь
покоятся останки
сотен граждан
зверски убитых
немецкими
оккупантами
1941-1944
Translation: Here / are resting the remains / of hundreds of citizens / brutally murdered / by the German / occupiers / 1941-1944.
On a plaque of the 2000s, in Belarusian:
Рзспублiка Беларусь
Воiнскае пахаванне
Прычыненне шкоды
караецца па
закону
...
Translation: The Republic of Belarus / The military burial site / Infliction of harm / is punishable by law / ... .
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.
The first German troops entered Glussk on June 27, 1941 [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories]. In autumn 1941 the ghetto and Judenrat were created [Al'tman 223]. Jews from Glusk were murdered at the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942 at Myslotino Hill and at Kostyolni Val [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
The present monument was erected in 1953 at the local Jewish cemetery and marks the reburial site of the Glusk Jews killed at Kostyolni Val. There, at the beginning of 1942, 500 Jews who had been found in their hiding places were brought by Germans and local policemen and were shot. Later, another large group of Jews, consisting of at least 270 people, mainly women, children, and old people, was shot at Kostyolni Val as well [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
Today the monument is a place of commemorative ceremonies.
There are other monuments in the town related to the Holocaust events.
In 1958, Jews of Glusk erected a monument at the killing site on Myslotino Hill.
In 2010, a new monument at the killing site on the Myslotino Hill was established.
For an original image, see
Wikipedia, https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Глусское_гетто#/media/Файл:Ghetto_Hlusk_2d.jpg.
"Glussk",
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14621533.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), p.223.