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Rededication of the replacement "Yama" memorial.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 31165
Rededication of the replacement "Yama" memorial. Monument placed on the site of the mass grave where Jews from the Minsk ghetto were killed 1941-43. The original monument was created immediately after the war by survivors and victims' relatives, and later replaced with this black marble monument. At present it is a part of a larger memorial complex called "Yama" ('ditch' in Russian), at the intersection of Melnikaite and Zaslavskaya streets in Minsk.

Rededication of the replacement "Yama" memorial.

Monument placed on the site of the mass grave where Jews from the Minsk ghetto were killed 1941-43. The original monument was created immediately after the war by survivors and victims' relatives, and later replaced with this black marble monument. At present it is a part of a larger memorial complex called "Yama" ('ditch' in Russian), at the intersection of Melnikaite and Zaslavskaya streets in Minsk.

Date
Circa 1965
Locale
Minsk, [Belarus] USSR
Photo Designation
BEARING WITNESS -- Memorials/Grave Stones
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Felix Lipski

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Felix Lipski
 
Record last modified: 2008-09-16 00:00:00
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