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ROSTOV-ON-DON · HOLOCAUST MEMORY
Zmievskaya
Balka
A place of memory in Rostov-on-Don

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PLACE · HISTORY · RESPONSIBILITY
Why this place matters
A DOCUMENTED SITE
A WIDER HISTORY
Mass murder of Jews
One landscape, larger crime
Zmievskaya Balka is one of the
largest documented sites of
mass murder of Jews in the
Russian SFSR during the
Holocaust.
Its history connects a specific
place in Rostov-on-Don with
the wider history of Nazi
genocide.
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WARTIME CHRONOLOGY
Rostov-on-Don in wartime
1. Rostov-on-Don was occupied in
November 1941 and retaken after
eight days
2. German forces recaptured the city
on 23 July 1942
3. Occupation brought registration,
persecution, and organized violence
against civilians.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON · AUGUST 1942
The deception of “resettlement”
On 11 August 1942, Jews in Rostov were ordered to gather at collection
points under the pretext of resettlement. The promise concealed a
plan of mass murder.
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Order
Pretext
Concealed purpose
Gather at collection
points.
Mass murder.
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THE RAVINE · A SITE OF CRIME
What happened at the
ravine
Different groups were killed by different
continuing campaign of murder.
Men — Marched to the ravine and shot.
Women, children, and older people —
Killed in gas vans and buried there.
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VICTIMS · ESTIMATES · CAREFUL DISTINCTIONS
Thousands of victims, one landscape
DOCUMENTED MINIMUM
BROADER ESTIMATE
at Zmievskaya Balka in mass
shootings by February 1943.
broader estimates commonly cite
about 27,000 killed at the site.
15,000
~27,000
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REMEMBERING WITHOUT ERASING DIFFERENCE
Beyond a single category of victim
This memorial is dedicated to the memory of the Jews and other civilians of the USSR killed by
the Nazis and their accomplices. The memory of this site encompasses the fates of individual
people, the destruction of an entire community, and the very mechanism of genocide.
INDIVIDUAL LIVES
COMMUNITY
SYSTEM
People
Loss
Genocide
Victims were not an
abstraction.
Murder destroyed lives
and communities.
Persecution became
organized mass
murder.
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ROSTOV-ON-DON · 9 MAY 1975
From crime scene to
memorial
The Zmievskaya Balka Memorial was unveiled on
9 May 1975. Its purpose is not to turn tragedy
into spectacle, but to make the place legible as a
site of mourning and public memory.
The project preserves the truth about Nazi
genocide against civilians and makes the site
accessible for education and remembrance.
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A PRACTICE OF ATTENTION
How to read a memorial
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Notice the landscape and its silence.
Ask whose names and stories are
remembered.
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Connect local evidence to the history
of the Holocaust in the Soviet Union.
Dont say that it was inevitable. Mass
kullings are not a force of nature.
Specific individuals planned, carried
out, and supported them.
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REMEMBER · UNDERSTAND · PROTECT
Memory is a
civic responsibility
Remember victims as people. Understand how persecution became
murder. Protect historical truth from indifference and distortion.