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World Jewish News
Brest to Install Monument to Holocaust Victims
30.05.2009
District Executive Committee of Kamenets (Brest region) decided to install a monument to the victims of the Holocaust at the site of the former ghetto. The initiative to perpetuate the memory of the ghetto prisoners of Kamenets was communicated to the local authorities by Brest City Jewish social organization "Brisk".
As the Chairman of the organization Boris Bruk explained, the community members submitted to the District Executive Committee of Kamenets two variants of the memorial sign, developed by the specialists in Minsk. One of them was approved.
This is a granite stele on the pedestal and an inscription in three languages: Belarusian, English and Hebrew that the monument is in memory of the ghetto prisoners of Kamenets.
According to B. Bruk, after the approval of this project, the regional executive committee will begin working on installing a monument at the intersection of Proletarskaya and Chkalova streets, where the ghetto was situated during the war. According to historical documents, the ghetto existed in Kamenets in 1941 - 1942 years. The number of its prisoners was over 4 thousand Jews.
The funds for the memorial sign were allocated by the Lazarus Fund (United Kingdom), and landscaping will be carried out at the cost of the local budget.
The memorial is planned to be installed in the current year by July 3 - the Day of liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.
In Brest region, 17 monuments to victims of the Holocaust have already been installed. On the territory of the region during the Second World War the Germans had destroyed about 250 thousand Jews.
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