Obj. ID: 58626 Holocaust Memorial in Astroŭna (Ostrovno), Belarus, 1956
Name of Monument
No official name
What/Who is commemorated?
300 Jews of Astroŭna (Ostrovno), killed on September 30, 1941.
Description
The monument is shaped like an obelisk. It bears a memorial plaque with an ethnically neutral Russian inscription. The monument's territory is surrounded by a fence.
Inscription
In Russian
Здесь покоятся
300 советских
граждан
зверски убитых
немецко-фашист[с]кими
захватчиками
30 IX 1941
Translation: Here lie / 300 Soviet / civilians / who were brutally murdered / by the German-Fascist / occupiers / on September 30, 1941.
Commissioned by
Jewish survivors and victims' relatives.
Germans occupied Astroŭna (Ostrovno) on July 7, 1941 [Al'tman, 705]. "On July 19, 1941 all Jews were forced to move to a ghetto which was established in ten houses. In addition, all the Jews were forced to wear a yellow patch. The ghetto was not closed, but anyone who left it was subject to being shot.
The Jews of Ostrovno were murdered in the vicinity of the village on September 30, 1941 by the Germans and their local collaborators" [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
In 1956, Jewish survivors and the victims' relatives erected the obelisk at the murder site [Yad Vashem: Untold Stories].
Botvinnik, Marat, "Pam'atniki Genotsida Evreev Belarusi" (Minsk: Belaruskaia navuka, 2000), pp.167-8.
For the original image, see
Wikipedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghetto_Ostrovno_3a.jpg.
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), p.705.