The memory of thirty-five Jewish young men who were shot in Pinsk in 1919 by the outposts of the Polish army entering the city during the Russo-Polish war will be commemorated here.
On the initiative of a group of Palestine Jews who emigrated from Pinsk, a wood in honor of the martyrs will be planted in Palestine.
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