Obj. ID: 34219 Holocaust Monument in Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy), Belarus, 1946
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who is commemorated?
860 Jewish Holocaust victims from Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy), killed on March 11, 1942.
Description:
The monument is erected at the killing site/mass grave of Radoshkovichi Jews at Krasnoarmejskaja Street.
It is composed of two identical gravestones standing on a massive three-step base. The gravestones bear two non-identical inscriptions: the right one in Russian and the left one in Hebrew. Two stars of David are carved on the Hebrew tombstone.
A fence surrounds the monument. On it, there is a plaque indicating that the present monument stands at the military burial site protected by law.
Inscriptions:
On the right tombstone:
In Russian
Вечная память
860 евреям
зверски убитым
немецкими
палачами
11.3.1942 г.
Радошковичи
Translation: Eternal memory / to the 860 Jews / who were brutally killed / by the German slaughterers / 11.3.1942 / Radoshkovichi.
On the left tombstone:
In Hebrew
פה
נחים 860 יהודי
רדושקוביצ׳
שנהרגו ונשרפו
בידי
אכירי גרמניה
כב אדר התש״ב
תנצבה (= תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים)
Translation: Here / lie 860 Jews / of Radoshkovichi, / who were killed and burned to death / by / the cruel Germans / 22 Adar 5702 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
On the plaque on the fance:
In Belarusian
Рзспублiка Беларусь
Воiнскае пахаванне
Прычыненне шкоды
караецца па
закону
[no.?]
Translation: The Republic of Belarus / The military burial site / Infliction of harm / is punishable by law.
Commissioned by
The victims' relatives.
10 image(s)
| at the corner of zavulak Polacki and ulitsa 8-go Marta
German forces captured Radaškovičy (Radashkovichy) on June 26, 1941. Since then, several mass shootings of Jews have taken place. The present monument commemorates the mass murder operation that was carried out on March 11, 1942. On that day, SS and SD forces surrounded the ghetto. The Germans drove the Jews to the marketplace, beating them with rubber truncheons and gun butts. Sick persons were shot to death on the spot. From time to time, the Germans also shot into the crowd. The Jews were divided into two groups - of those considered capable of working - was composed of young persons and specialists, the other - of those deemed unfit to work. The Germans took the second group - composed from women, children, and men considered incapable of working -- to a barn. Then the Germans took the men into the barn in groups of four and shot them to death. The Germans poured gasoline over the bodies of the Jews and set the barn on fire. During this murder operation, about 850 Jews were murdered [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
The monument was erected in 1946 at the corner of zavulak Polacki and ulitsa 8-go Marta [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories]. The monument at Gastello Street was erected a year later and has an almost identical shape [Yad Vashem: The Untold Stories].
Today, the monument is a place of commemorative ceremonies.
"Execution of Jews in Radoshkovichi,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/radoshkovichi-radoszkowicze-radoshkovits-rada-scaron-kovi-y-minsk-belarus.1418.
"Radoszkowice,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622208.