Description of the attraction
Bronnaya Gora is a railway station not far from Brest. There is a tract, a place of mass executions and burials of people during the Great Patriotic War in 1942. On June 7, 2007, a memorial plaque was installed here. A monument was erected to the victims of the Holocaust.
Bronnaya Gora is a monument to the cynical cold-blooded extermination of people during the Nazi occupation. For the Germans, Jews have always turned out to be objectionable, so most of the 50 thousand people killed here are Jews, but there are Russians, Belarusians, and people of other nationalities among those killed.
In May-June, 16,800 square meters of mass graves were dug at the Bronnaya Gora railway station. Beginning in mid-June, innocent civilians, prisoners of war, including the elderly, women and even small children, were brought here for execution.
Most of the people killed were from the Brest ghetto, where Jews were forcibly resettled from all around Brest. The ghetto was created on December 16, 1941. In the fall of 1942, the Germans demanded a ransom for the lives of its inhabitants, but even having received significant funds and jewelry, they still decided to exterminate all the Jews of the ghetto.
Whole train echelons of civilians were taken to Bronnaya Gora, where graves were already prepared. Punishers with cynicism first forced people to undress on special platforms, then put themselves in the graves on their own, after which they shot at the defenseless people lying in the graves.
In March 1944, during the retreat, the Nazis decided to cover their tracks and burn the bodies of those killed on Bronnaya Gora. For this, the inhabitants of Brest were forced to dig up corpses from graves and burn them. Funeral pyres burned day and night for 15 consecutive days. After finishing work, the Nazis shot their compulsory assistants, and planted young trees at the site of the burning of corpses.
