Headstone [brezsc-1014]
A salvaged remnant of a Jewish gravestone that once stood in the Brest-Litovsk Jewish cemetery. The cemetery was established in the 1830s. During the Second World War the occupying German forces murdered approximately 26,000 Jews and began to clear headstones from the cemetery to use the land for their own purposes. When the Soviets regained the territory of Brest, they ordered German prisoners of…
Subject
- https://ttp.jhn.ngo/ttp_headstones:1014#agent_1
- Jewish Inscriptions
Type of item
- headstones (tombstones)
Subject
- https://ttp.jhn.ngo/ttp_headstones:1014#agent_1
- Jewish Inscriptions
Type of item
- headstones (tombstones)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Places
- Brest-Litovsk cemetery, Brest, Belarus
- Brest-Litovsk
Identifier
- https://ttp.jhn.ngo/ttp_headstones:1014
Language
- he
- heb
Is part of
- Jewish History Tours - Newly digitised item
- https://thetogetherplan.com/our-projects/heritage/brest-headstones/
Providing country
- Belarus
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2022-11-14T11:10:01.497Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-11-08T15:30:47.273Z