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Obj. ID: 42811  Holocaust Memorial at Freyd Community and Beit Menachem Synagogue in Birobidzhan, Russia, 2001

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 8.2015

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish victims of Holocaust

Description

The memorial is an upright slab with Magen David in the upper part and an inscription in Russian in the middle part.

Inscription

Памяти
жертв Холокоста
(1933 г. - 1945 г.)

Translation: To the memory / of Holocaust victims / (1933 - 1945)

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JCC

Regional Government

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Anna Berezin | 2022
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Holocaust Memorial at Freyd Community and Beit Menachem Synagogue in Birobidzhan | Unknown
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The monument was made in Khabarovsk and unveiled on April 20, 2001.

The monument is a meeting ground for the International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day.

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Novikova, Yuliia. "Poka mir molchal," Birobidzhaner Stern, 15 April 2020, https://www.gazetaeao.ru/poka-mir-molchal/ (accessed January 5, 2022)

"Traurnym mitingom otmetili Mezhdunarodnyi den' zhertv Holokosta v Birobidzhane," Official site of Birobidzhan, 28 January 2020, http://www.biradm.ru/about/info/news/8156/ (accessed January 5, 2022)
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