On July 10, 2005 several people
gathered in Rakow cemetery to commemorate a new monument dedicated to the 112
young men murdered by the Nazis in the autumn of 1941.
The event is
described in Rakow Yizkor Book on page 142. The men remained
anonymous, their names hidden for ever in the hearts of Rakow men
and women killed few weeks later in Rakow Ghetto.
The site was
discovered in 2004 while documenting Rakow cemetery.
The project was
founded by Lazarus Charitable Foundation from England.
Among the people
present at the ceremony were the Mayer of Rakow, Diana and Michael
Lazarus representatives of the Mark Simon Lazarus Foundation (Great
Britain), Rakow residents, Minsk ghetto survivors, Yuri Dorn who is
the Co-director of Holocaust's victims Commemorative Commission and
young people from Minsk "Gilel" organization.
The monument’s
inscriptions: “Here in the year 1941 112 Jews from Rakow were
brutally murdered.To the everlasting memory of the Victims of the
Holocaust.”
The inscription
at the bottom: "A contribution from Simon Mark Lazarus foundation
made this project possible"
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