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Monument to the children - victims of fascism

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Type: Monuments Date of Foundation: 1960 year Status: Without a category The Republic of Belarus, Brest region, Brest district, Leplevka

Monument to the children - victims of fascism was built 23 September 1960 at the fork in the road Brest - Leplevka - Domachevo. It is a monumental obelisk with a star, which bears the inscription: "From generation to generation, your light will honor the memory of all the Soviet people".

September 23, 1942 a group of 53 Germans shot Domachevskogo pupil of children's home and their governess. Children and Pauline Grokholski were taken in the direction of the station Dubica and fire at the border point situated at a distance of 800 meters from the river the Western Bug, the car stopped, the children and their teacher were shot...

After many years the sculptor Anatoly Solyatitsky in turn has created a monument to Domachevo sorrow, calling it a "Protest". In 2010, at the grave in the forest where they were shot dead 53 children and the teacher, a memorial sign was placed on a granite slab which knocked out the names of the dead children and Pauline Grokholski. It was built on the design of a high school ninth-graders Domachevskoy Lyudmila Shinkarchuk.

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Address The Republic of Belarus, Brest region, Brest district, Leplevka GPS Google: 51.781620′ N, 23.640752′ E