Obj. ID: 58386 New Holocaust Memorial at the Killing Site in Kalinkavichy (Kalinkovichi), Belarus, 1996
Memorial name:
No official name.
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jews of Kalinkavichy (Kalinkovichi), killed on September 22, 1941.
Description
The monument is a massive boulder with non-identical Russian and Hebrew inscriptions.
Inscription
In Russian
Вечная память
жертвам фашизма
расстрелянных
в г. Калинковичи 22.09.1941 г.
Translation: Eternal memory / to the victims of fascism / who were shot to death / in Kalinkovichi 22.09.1941.
In Hebrew
מצבת נצח
לקדושי קהילת
קלינקובי[?] ובנותיה
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Translation: Everlasting memorial / to the martyrs of the community of / Kalinkovichi and the surrounding area / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
Commissioned by
The emigrants from Kalinkavichy (Kalinkovichi).
Kalinkavichy (Kalinkovichi) was occupied on August 21, 1941 [Al'tman, 377]. On September 22, 1941, all the local Jews "were taken to a railway station about 1.5 kilometres northeast of the town, where they were shot to death. The victims' bodies were thrown into a ravine and covered with earth. The number of victims has been estimated to have been 700" [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
In 1953, the first memorial was erected at the murder site of the Jews of Kalinkavichy (Kalinkovichi) [Botvinnik, 219-20].
In 1996, the monument under discussion was erected at the entrance to the memorial's territory [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
Today, both memorials serve as sites for commemorative ceremonies.
For the original image, see
Wikipedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghetto_Kalinkovichi_1a.jpg.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), pp.377.
"Kalinkovichi,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622171.