New monument opened in Gorodeya

JEWISH leaders, local officials and Western diplomats opened a monument yesterday that includes more than 1,000 stones - one for each of the Jews killed by the Nazis outside a Belarusian town on a single day during the Second World War.

The monument near Gorodeya, 60 miles south west of the capital Minsk, honours the 1,137 Jews historians say were massacred in a field outside their town on June 17, 1942.