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\n \n The monument to the victims of the genocide of the Jews who were residing in Pushkin, is situated at the intersection of Dvortsovaya Street and Moskovskaya Street. The monument was inaugurated on October 13, 1991 in the year of the 50th anniversary of the mass shooting of Jewish residents of Pushkin that was occupied by Hitler’s army in the autumn of 1941. At that time more than a thousand Jews were shot in the territory of the Alexander Park and the Babolovsky Park.
The monument was erected at the initiative of the members of the Jewish Association of St. Petersburg: the Holocaust Investigation Group (G. Farber, A. Frenkel, L. Kolton) and the office of Narod Moy, the construction was financed by citizens of St. Petersburg, foreign Jewish organizations, benefit concerts of A. Rozenbaum and the Leningrad Soloists chamber ensemble headed by M. Ganvarg. The memorial was designed by architect B. Beyder free of charge. The Formula of Grief by sculptor V. Sidur was made at the Monumentskulptura Factory. The model was made by sculptor A. Pozin free of charge.\n
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