Molchad Ghetto

[1][2] Before World War II and the Holocaust, about 1,000 Jews lived in Molchad.

[3] The city was captured by the Germans in June 1941, and a ghetto was established there in July of that year.

Afterwards, the Germans announced that any Jew who had not been in the ghetto would be moved there and guaranteed work.

[1] In 1977, a monument was erected in Molchad in memory of the "Soviet citizens murdered by the Nazis."

In the 2000s, on the new monument built in memory of the Jews murdered in the city, the words were inscribed in Belarusian, English, and Hebrew: "Here in 1942, 3,600 Jews—local residents—were cruelly slaughtered.