Obj. ID: 33322 Holocaust Monument at the Killing Site in Krichev, Belarus, 2000s
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of the Krichev district, killed in the autumn of 1941.
Description
The monument is an upright stele of an irregular shape standing on a thin base that, in turn, stands on a paved podium.
In the upper part of the stele, the menorah is depicted.
The monument bears three non-identical inscriptions: in Belarusian, Russian, and Hebrew. At the bottom of the monument, there is an additional inscription identifying the foundations that erected the monument.
The inscriptions are framed with long strips on their right and left sides.
Inscription
In Belarusian:
Ахвярам нацызму.
У восень 1941 года
былі па-зверску расстраляны яўрэі-
жыхары Крычаўскага раёна.
Translation: To the victims of Nazism. / In autumn 1941 / were brutally shot Jews- / residents of the Krichev district.
In English:
To the victims of Nazism.
Jews from Krichev district
were brutally murdered
in autumn 1941.
In Hebrew:
לזכר קורבנות היהודים
מהעיר קריצ׳ב והסביבה הי׳׳ד
שנרצחו על ידי הנאצים
בסתיו 1941
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Translation: In memory of the Jewish victims / from the town of Krichev and the neighborhood, God will avenge their blood / who were killed by the Nazis / in autumn 1941 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
At the bottom of the monument, in English:
This memorial was erected through the efforts of
Belarusian Jewish Community and thanks to
to the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, UK,
the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, USA,
the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation, USA.
Commissioned by
The Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation.
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In Autumn 1941 around 336 Jews of Krichev were killed by the Nazis. The monument that commemorates the victims' memory is one of the about 100 monuments erected by the Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, the Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, and the Warren and Beverly Geisler Family Foundation. All of these monuments have a similar shape and are adorned with a menorah.
Daletskii, Vladimir, "U Pamiati net granits: Krichevskaia zhizn', 29 iiulia 2017 goda," Belarus Holocaust Memorials Project., https://www.belarusmemorials.com/пресса/у-памяти-нет-границ-киричевская-жизнь/?lang=ru (accessed January 10, 2024)
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), p.481.
Lazarus, Michael, "The Belarus Memorials Project: The Simon Mark Lazarus Foundation, The Miles and Marilyn Kletter Family Foundation, The Geisler Family Foundation," in: Killing Sites – Research and Remembrance (Berlin: Metropol, 2015), 205-207., https://www.academia.edu/11753495/Holocaust_Memorials_in_the_Belarusian_Culture_of_Remembrance (accessed January 16, 2024)