Join us in creating a Memorial Park to remember the 1,260 Jews from Puchovichi, Belarus, who were brutally murdered by the Nazis on September 22, 1941.
From 1941 to 1945, the massacre on Popova Hill was repeated again, again, and again at different locations and at different extremes throughout Belarus. More than 1 million Jews in Belarus were killed by the Nazis during this period. The Puchovichi Memorial Park is designed as a sanctuary to remember the Jewish victims in Belarus who lost their lives to the Nazis.
The Memorial Park is also a project of discovery and connection for the multitude of Jews who lost contact with their roots in Eastern Europe after their ancestors immigrated to the United States and elsewhere in the late 1890s and early 1900s. We did not realize that, while our immediate families had found safe haven outside Belarus, other family members remained back home and suffered tragic ends during the Holocaust.
We plan to begin construction of the Memorial Park during early 2017.