Yama Memorial Complex

The memorial was erected on the site of one of the largest Jewish ghettos in Europe, in the part where on March 2, 1942, the Nazis massacred about five thousand Jews.
The modest obelisk from which the Yama memorial began appeared on this site in 1947 – it was the first and for a long time the only monument to the victims of the Holocaust on the territory of the USSR and, moreover, the first monument in the Soviet Union on which it was allowed to make an inscription in Yiddish. In 2000, the sculpture composition "The Last Way" (by Leonid Levin) appeared in the Yama memorial complex – a group of doomed martyrs descending to the bottom of the pit.