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Memorial to Holocaust victims to be put up in Brest region’s Kamyanets

A memorial to Holocaust victims will be installed in the Brest region's Kamyanets where more than 4,000 Jews were imprisoned in a ghetto in 1941 and 1942.

The Jewish community in Brest asked the authorities to allow them to put up the memorial, offering two designs. One of them, a granite stele with a commemorative text in the Belarusian, English and Hebrew languages, has already been approved by the district authorities.

A British-based fund provided money for the memorial to be located at the former site of the Kamyanets ghetto. The local authorities pledged to do landscaping work in the area.

The memorial is expected to be installed by July 3.

Seventeen memorials have been put up in the Brest region to commemorate Holocaust victims. Around 250,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis there during WWII. //BelaPAN