Yama

Minsk, Belarus

The Pit (Belarusian, Yama) is a monument dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust on the corner of Melnikayte and Zaslavskaya streets in Minsk, Belarus. The memorial is located at the site where, on 2 March 1942, Nazi German forces shot about 5,000 Jewish residents of the nearby Minsk Ghetto.

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