2006 Press Releases

Ambassador Stewart Visits Yama Holocaust Memorial

Minsk, Belarus
November 20, 2006

On November 15, Ambassador Stewart and Deputy Chief of Mission Moore visited the recently vandalized Yama Holocaust Memorial and two other related sites to demonstrate their support for religious tolerance and freedom in Belarus and to stand in solidarity with the country’s Jewish community. A representative from the Minsk office of an international Jewish NGO provided a tour for the Ambassador of the Yama Memorial, which commemorates the 5,000 prisoners of the Minsk ghetto who were killed by Nazis on March 2, 1942, and two other Holocaust memorials.