As a result of the reconstruction of the fraternal burial, the Ola memorial complex was created, which includes three functional zones: an entrance group, a memorial zone (in the territory adjacent to the existing fraternal burial) and a pedestrian route connecting them along a former village street.
In the center of the memorial zone there is a symbolic cross and a bell. Nearby there is a belfry in the form of a stylized village barn with the number of bells according to the number of villages whose inhabitants died here.
The village of Ola was occupied at the end of July 1941. On the morning of January 14, 1944, a German punitive detachment, together with a military unit, which numbered about 1,000 soldiers, surrounded the village. People were driven into houses
which were then set on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot from machine guns and submachine guns, thrown into the fire alive. Thus, 1758 civilians were shot and burned, including 950 children.
After the war, the village of Ola was not revived.
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