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The monument was erected at the killing site and mass grave of the Lenin Jews on the hill in the direction of the village of Steblavichy (Steblovichi), which currently lies on the northwestern outskirts of Lenin. It had the form of a small concrete stele which bore a Russian ethnically neutral inscription and was adorned by a branch and a five-pointed Soviet star. Text on the grave: Здесь зверски убито немецко-фашистскими захватчиками 1850 советских граждан г.п. Ленин 14.8.1942 г.
[Here / 1,850 Soviet civilians from the u.s. [urban settlement] of Lenin were brutally murdered by the German-Fascist invaders / August 14, 1942]