One of the points on the map of Bendery that keeps the memory of the tragic events of the middle of the last century associated with the genocide of the Jewish people is the moat of the Bendery fortress. The Nazis were operating here in the summer-autumn of 1941. A specially created Commission to investigate the atrocities of the German-Romanian invaders discovered four execution pits at the Main Fortress Gate in Panin Street (opposite the Monument of Russian Glory) at the end of 1944. It is reliably known that 58 people were killed near the walls of the fortress on August 8, 1941, eight of whom were children. It was possible to establish the names of 11 dead after the exhumation of the remains. This information is written on a commemorative plate, which was officially opened today. The granite plaque was placed under a tablet fixed on the wall in 1997 by members of the Jewish religious community that had just been created at that time in Bendery.
The commemorative and information plate installed at the site of the tragic events was opened by the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic Vadim Krasnoselsky and honored guests who arrived in Bendery to participate in the mourning events dedicated to the Holocaust Remembrance Day. The participants of the ceremony after laying flowers to the stove went to the temple of Alexander Nevsky, located in the park of the same name near the Bendery fortress, where they lit memorial candles.
