באראנאוויטש

באראנאוויטש — בית החיים

Baranovitch — the Jewish cemetery

Jewish cemetery, Chernyshevskogo street, Baranovichi, Brest Region, Belarus

• It is fenced and it is kept, which in Belarus is worth saying first. The upkeep is the work of the Baranowitzer society in Israel and of one man in the town, Shmuel Kaplan, who acts as caretaker. The ground is on Chernyshevskogo street and is a normal stop on a city tour.
• FEW OF THE ORIGINAL MATZEVOS ARE LEFT. The stones of the town's known families — Kuncevitsky, Turevsky, Vinograd, Slucjac — went into the foundations of the buildings around. One stone is still there lying on its side over the Halperin family's crypt.
• THIS GROUND IS ITSELF A PLACE OF KEDOSHIM. The Einsatzkommando murdered here. A memorial marks where about nineteen thousand Jews were killed around the end of July 1942, and a second marks three thousand Czech prisoners taken off a train and shot. Behave in it accordingly.
• The marker put up after independence was raised with the help of a survivor, Moshe Zalmanovich; when it was desecrated he paid to have it restored himself.
• Baranovitch is a name people know from the yeshiva of Reb Elchonon Wasserman and from the Slonimer and Koidanover rebbes who lived here between the wars. No source found says any of them lies in this ground, and this listing is not going to place them in it.