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Obj. ID: 44749  Old Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Klimavičy, Belarus, 1950s

© NADAV Foundation, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2010

Memorial name:

No official name.

Who is Commemorated?

Jews of Klimavičy, killed on November 6, 1941, and the reburied Jews from the Melovaya Gora murder site. 

Description:

The monument is shaped like a traditional Jewish tombstone and sits atop a massive concrete podium. At the upper part of it, the Magen David is carved.

The rough surface of the monument bears a marble plaque with an additional Magen David at the top. On the plaque, there are also two not-identical inscriptions: in Yiddish and Russian. 

A fence surrounds the monument. 

Inscription

On the plaque:

in Yiddish

דא ליגן די קארבאנעס 
פין גיטלירס פאשיזמ [ם] 
אמגקומענע פין די 
מערדערישע הענט 
טז חשון 1941 יאר

Translation: Here lie victims of Hitler's Fascism, who died of murderous hands  / 16 Hishvan 1941
 

In Russian 

Здесь похоронены
жертвы погибшие от 
рук фашистских палачей
6-го ноября 1941 г.
От скорбящих родных 

Translation: Here are buried / victims who died at / the hands of the fascist executioners / on November 6, 1941. / From the grieving relatives. 

Within the Magen David on the plaque, in Hebrew: 

פ׳׳נ

Translation: Here lies.

Commissioned by

The victims' relative. 

Documenter
Vladimir Levin | 2010
Author of description
Anna Berezin, Liza Schwartz | 2024
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Old Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Klimavičy | Unknown
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1950s
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2018 (destroyed, replaced with a new monument)
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History
According to Yad Vashem, in January 1939, 1,693 Jews lived in Klimavičy, accounting for 18 percent of the total population. The Germans occupied Klimavičy on August 10, 1941. At the end of August 1941, thirteen Jews appointed by the Germans as the Jewish Council were arrested. The hostages were taken from the prison to the Jewish cemetery, where they were forced to dig a pit. Twelve of them were shot by local policemen under German supervision.
Most Jews of Klimavičy and nearby localities were shot in murder operations between November 1941 and the spring of 1943.
In the late 1950s, on the site of the mass grave, the victims' relatives erected the monument, which quickly became the place of the commemorative ceremonies. However, in 1967, the Soviet authorities forbade the local Jews to hold them. 
In 2018, the old monument in the Jewish cemetery of Klimovichi was demolished. In its place, the new monument was erected 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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