{"id":1018978,"date":"2025-04-15T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1018978"},"modified":"2025-04-15T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:20:58","slug":"the-zonal-state-archive-in-rechitsa-presents-a-document-on-the-installation-of-a-monument-at-the-site-of-the-execution-of-jews-in-the-agro-town-of-kholmech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1018978","title":{"rendered":"The Zonal State Archive in Rechitsa presents a document on the installation of a monument at the site of the execution of Jews in the agro-town of Kholmech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, occupied during the Great Patriotic War, establishing the so-called \u00abnew order\u00bb, the Nazis carried out a policy of mass extermination of Jews. The town of Kholmech in the Rechitsa district did not escape this fate. <strong>In August 1941, the German occupiers shot 57 Jewish civilians on a cliff near the Dnieper<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, the Jewish community of Rechitsa approached the district leadership with an initiative to perpetuate the memory of the murdered Kholmech residents. As a result, by decision No.327 of the Rechitsa District Executive Committee of September 30, 1999 (F. 348. Op. 1. D. 863. L. 113), <strong>a monument was erected<\/strong> in the village (now an agro-town) of Kholmech at the site of the execution and burial of civilians, <strong>on which the epitaph is carved:<\/strong> <em>\u00abBend your knees, young and old. Here lie ordinary Jews. Let no one disturb them from sleeping in eternal sleep. God forbid anyone else suffer like this. 57 ruined souls: 15 men, 18 women, 24 children\u00bb<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1-124.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1068235\" class=\"wp-image-1068235 alignnone size-full\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>1. ZGARech. F. 348. Op. 1. D. 863. L. 113<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/2-91.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1068236\" class=\"wp-image-1068236 alignnone size-medium\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'>2. Monument to the executed Jewish residents of Kholmech<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Belarus, occupied during the Great Patriotic War, establishing the so-called \u00abnew order\u00bb, the Nazis carried out a policy of mass extermination of Jews. The town of Kholmech in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sitenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018978"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018979,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018978\/revisions\/1018979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}