Commemoration at the former Jewish cemetery in Minsk (1991-2015) · Maly Trascjanec: The Сulture of Remembrance · Malyj|Trostinez

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Remains of the Jewish cemetery in Minsk

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The "broken table" as a memorial to the murdered people of the Minsk ghetto

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Monuments from different cities commemorating the murdered people of the Minsk ghetto

Between 1991 and 2015, several memorial stones were laid on the site of the former Jewish cemetery in Minsk on the initiative of the International Centre for Education and Exchange (IBB) Dortmund and IBB Minsk.

The memorial stones commemorate deported and murdered citizens from various cities in what is now Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic and Russia.¹ The erection of the memorial stones symbolized the first step on the way to a pan-European culture of remembrance in which Jews were also recognized as victims of the National Socialists in Belarus. Bilateral relations, including between Austria and Belarus, intensified and other projects, such as the "Forest of Names" and the "Massif of Names", followed.² The memorials on the site of the Jewish cemetery come from Hamburg (1995), Düsseldorf (1998), Bremen (2002), Cologne-Bonn (2008), Vienna (2009), Berlin (2009), Frankfurt am Main ( 2012), Kaliningrad (2015) and Theresienstadt-Brno (2015).³

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^{1 Сf. website of}^{History Workshop Minsk}^{(accessed on: 08/23/2021).}

^{2 Cf. Wörgetter, Erinnerungsarbeit als Element der bilateralen Beziehungen, p. 150.}

^{3 Cf. Solopova, Minskoe getto, p. 71.}

_{It is striking that the texts in German, Russian and Hebrew are engraved on all the monuments, except for those for the deported Jews from Hamburg and Königsberg (Kaliningrad). A reason for this cannot be given at this point.}