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World Jewish News
Tombstones from Jewish graves Found
12.04.2009
In Brest, during repairs in the yard of the building where a branch of the central clinic is located, at Karl Marx street, 31, tombstones from old Jewish tombs have been found.
According to the Chairman of the Brest city Jewish public association "Brisk" Boris Bruk, the first plates were found here on April 8, after removing the old layer of asphalt. On April 10, 12 gravestones were retrieved, as reported by BelaPAN .
The size of the tombstones is about 0.5 to 1.5 meters. Judging by the inscriptions on them, these plates are from the graves of rabbis. How many of them are really here will be determined after the construction works are completed.
"The plates lie very close to each other. During the Second World War, this was the building of Gestapo. The Nazis created a parade ground of these plates," said Bruk.
According to Bruk, a few days ago four tombstones were brought and left at one of the walls of the "Lokomotiv" stadium, where the Jewish cemetery used to be.
All the plates will be transported to one of the casemates of the East fort of Brest fortress, where some two thousand of such tombstones are kept. Later they are planned to use in the construction of a memorial and Lapidarium at the site of the former Jewish cemetery, which ceased to exist in the 1950s, and in the 1970s "Lokomotiv" stadium was built at this place.
"People call me and report such findings, or simply bring them to the place of the former cemetery. Residents of the city understand that this is not only historical value, but memory of the ancestors, which must be preserved," stressed Bruk.
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