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© Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky, Photographer: Smilovitsky, Leonid, 2018 , (Negative/Photo.:   A400530)

Memorial Name

Memorial sign to the victims of the Slutsk Ghetto on Kopylskaya street in Slutsk

Who is Commemorated?

The Jews killed in the "Town Ghetto" of Slutsk during the Holocaust

Description

The memorial is erected at the site where the entrance to the "Town Ghetto" in Slutsk once stood. The memorial consists of 10 granite stones surrounded by a metal grating with large spaces between the grates; haphazard metal bands cover portions of the squares, seemingly at random. 

The paths leading to the memorial have boulders on their sides with inscriptions in Belarussian.

At the entrance, there are additional stones with plaques in Belarusian.

Inscriptions

All the inscriptions are written in Belarussian. 

On the large boulder by the street:

Гэта нашы попел і слёзы

Translation:: These are our ashes and tears.

On the six lone boulders:

Кахалі
Вучыліся
Сябравалі
Стваралі
Верылі
Развітваліся

Translation: Loved / Learned / Befriended / Created / Believed / Said Farewell

On the left entrance plaque:

«На гэтым месцы
ў гады вайны
знаходзілася гета
горада Слуцка.
7-8 лютага 1943 года
фашысты
знішчылі і спалілі
3000 чалавек»

Translation: The Ghetto of the City of Slutsk / was located at this place / during the war. / February 7-8, 1943 / fascists destroyed and burnt / 3,000 people

On the right entrance plaque:

АЎТАР ПРАЕКТА
АРХІТЭКТАР ЛЕАНІД ЛЕВІН
МЕМАРЫЯЛЬНЫ ЗНАК
УЗВЕДЗЕНЫ ПРЫ ДАПАМОЗЕ СПОНСАРАЎ
СЛУЦКАГА РАЙВЫКАНКАМА
СЛУЦКАЙ ЯЎРЭЙСКАЙ АБШЧЫНЫ
САЮЗА БЕЛАРУСКІХ ЯЎРЭЙСКІХ
ГРАМАДСКІХ
АБ’ЯДНАННЯЎ І АБШЧЫН
ТВОРЧАЙ МАЙСТЭРНІ
АРХІТЭКТАРА Л.ЛЕВІНА
ГРАМАДЗЯНІНА ЗША ДЖЭРРЫ ВАЙНЕРА
ФОНДА САЙМАНА М. ЛАЗАРУCА
(ВЯЛІКАБРЫТАНІЯ)
ПІНСКАЯ ЯЎРЭЙСКАЯ АБШЧЫНА
СЛУЧЧАН, ЯКІЯ ПРАЖЫВАЮЦЬ У ЧЫКАГА
ЕЎРА-АЗІЯЦКАГА ЯЎРЭЙСКАГА КАНГРЭСА
ГРАМАДЗЯНІНА СЛУЦКА А.САМУСЕВІЧА
ЯЎРЭЙСКАГА АГЕНСТВА
ДЛЯ ІЗРАІЛЯ “САХНУТ”

Translation: Author of the project architect Leonid Levin / Memorial Sign / Erected with the help of sponsors / Slutsk District Executive Committee / Slutsk Jewish community / Belarusian Jewish public associations and communities / Creative workshop of architect L. Levin / USA Jerry Weiner / Fund Simon M. Lazarus (UK) / Pinsk Jewish community / The Euro-Asian Jewish Congress / Natives from Slutsk living in Chicago / Citizen of Slutsk A Samusevych / The Jewish Agency for Israel "Jafi"

Commissioned By

The Jewish Community of Slutsk, funded through donations

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Memorial at the site of "town" ghetto in Slutsk | Unknown
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Completion Date
2007
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Levin, Leonid (architect)
Levina, Galina (architect)
Kopylov, Aleksander (architect)
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Belarus | Minskaia vobl. | Slutsk
| 20 Kopylskaia [Kopylskaya] St.
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