About 20 crosses at the site of mass graves of victims of the concentration camps, “the 5th Regiment” (Stalag 313) in Vitebsk broken and lying on the ground. It is also completely broken down one of the wooden obelisks, the other pyramid has lost a star, another – is damaged.

At the site of a concentration camp, where Soviet estimates killed 80,000 prisoners of war and civilians in 1964 an obelisk was erected, and in 2012 it opened near the chapel. However, the very place where the grave is hardly a well-kept.

The valley with the largest number of graves were found in the form of obelisks plank pyramid with red five-pointed stars on top. Then, in the 1990s, this place was surrounded by a symbolic fence of wooden crosses.

Now 20 of the cross had fallen. Most of them are likely to have fallen from natural causes – they were rot at ground level. The fall seems to have accelerated and fell dry grass, which has passed through the cemetery from the garages. However, part of the cross is broken, and their cross scattered to a distance at which they could not fly away in the fall.

Completely destroyed one of the obelisks – he cut off two sides of the pyramid and they are partially broken down into individual boards. It is unlikely that such a force element – most likely, there were attached human hands. On the other obelisk also tried to tear off one of the walls. Another pyramid has lost a star, but there seems to be ground off rust nails that secure it.

Interestingly, the recent work carried out here – on the perimeter of the burial planted several dozen saplings. However, destruction while leaving as it is. The second largest burial of victims of the Nazis in Belarus, it seems, despite the approach of the 70th anniversary of the Victory to clean up not going.

news.vitebsk.cc