Obj. ID: 32689 Holocaust Monumentl in the Jewish Cemetery in Dribin, Belarus, 1950s
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Dribin.
Description:
The monument is situated at the far end of the Jewish cemetery of Dribin, on a mass grave where the victims were reinterred. The grave is surrounded by a metal fence.
Based on a four-step pedestal, the monument consists of a square block, in the center of which there is a marble plaque with a Russian inscription. On the square block, there is an obelisk topped by a red five-pointed star with a wreath surrounding it.
Inscription
In Russian:
Память о Вас
дорогие погибшие
от рук
немецких фашистов
7 октября 1941 года.
Вечно
будет жить
В наших сердцах
родные и друзья
Translation: The memory of you, / dear perished at the hands of German fascists / on 7 October 1941 / forever will live in our hearts. / Relatives and friends.
Commissioned by
The survived Jews of Dribin and the victims' relatives.
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About 800 Jews of Dribin were murdered on October 7, 1941, near the village of Poloski. Later the victims were interred in the Jewish cemetery.
The monument on the mass grave was constructed in the 1950s.
As of 2016, the monument is freshly paved in a blue color.
"Dribin,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/commemoration/14624971.
Smilovitskii, Leonid, "Po sledam evreiskikh kladbishch Belarusi: Dribin," Evgenii Berkovich (ed.), Zhurnal-gazeta "Masterskaia," September 26, 2019, https://club.berkovich-zametki.com/?p=50780 (accessed December 10, 2023)