In 2002, a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust was erected in Bendery. The opening of the obelisk took place in the Oktyabrsky park, Tkachenko street. Near this place, in August and September 1941, 300 Jews, mostly women and children, were shot. Their bodies were dumped into the Dniester. In 1966, a group of Jewish natives of Bendery came from Israel and proposed to the city council that a monument to the victims of the Holocaust be erected. The city council refused. In 2002, the then director of “Hesed Joseph”, V. Guryev, with the support of the Bendery Jewish community, “Sokhnut” and the director of the sports school I. Geris, erected a monument. It is an image of a fragment of the Western Wall. Made in black granite. Red blotches are reminiscent of blood drops of the victims. The Star of David and the image of the Menorah are carved in the monument.
On the monument there are inscriptions: 1941 and to the Victims of the Holocaust. Nearby is a stone with the inscription: “Not all victims of fascism were Jews, but all Jews were victims of fascism.” The monument was desecrated in 2008 and 2012. The vandals broke several slabs and a sign with an inscription, a swastika and anti-Semitic inscriptions were painted on the monument. There were three main places of execution of Jews in Bendery during the occupation in 1941-1944.