The Holocaust Memorial in Volochisk
This monument
to the victims of the Nazis stands on a mound in the grounds of a factory
on the outskirts of Volochisk. According to my guide, Misha Aizen, some
10,000 people, almost all of them Jews from the surrounding areas who had
been taken out of the Ghettos in Volochisk and Podvolochisk, were
shot and buried in a mass grave on this spot. The monument was erected
in the fifties by the Soviet regime although, according to Sam Trugman,
the Volochisker Benevolent Society in America had wanted to donate some
money but were prevented from doing so. Consequently, the Russian plaque
which is
affixed to the monument, like the civic museum, makes no mention of
Jews, but rather “victims of the German-Fascists”. Since the end of the
the U.S.S.R, the area around the site, including several post-war Jewish
graves, has been neglected and is now overgrown.
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