Crosses of Belarus (part XVI): “Jefim Jefimavich Pjetrovski, His Wife, and Their Four Children, Shot in 1942”, Pinsk-Bjares’tsje Highway 2013.
Крыжы Беларусі (частка XVI): “Петровский Ефим Ефимович, его жена, и их четверо детей, растреляны в 1942 г.“, ля М10 Пінск-Бярэсьце 2013 г.
This lonely cross caught the corner of my eye a hundred yards off the road as I drove from Pinsk to the celebration of Trinity Sunday in Charnauchytsy near Bjares’tsje (Brest) in May 2013. Memorials to people murdered by the German occupiers are normally marked as such. Here it is impossible from the inscription alone to know whether the Pjetrovski family was murdered by German or German-led forces, by Soviet partisans or other Soviet organs, or by some other group.
