Shepetovka - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

… On their return to Shepetovka those Jews who had succeeded in remaining alive tried to obtain permission from the local authorities to fence off the site of tragedy for the Jews and to erect a monument there. However, the authorities did not respond. Local peasants were grazing their cattle at the Jewish burial site and digging up the human bones and discarding them as rubbish. The Jewish community, in which my father took an active part, collected money from the town's residents and with these funds erected a monument [at the site] and fenced it off. The town's authorities did not allow them to write on the monument that it was erected to honor the memory of murdered Jews. Therefore, [the Jewish community] had to write that the monument was erected in honor of murdered Soviet civilians. …