Novogrudok. Monument to the Nazarene Nuns.

In Novogrudok, a memorial stone was erected near the Catholic Church in honor of the Nazarene nuns who were killed by the Nazis in the summer of 1943. In the church itself, a sarcophagus with the remains of the Nazarene sisters is kept in a side chapel. The Nazarenes are a Catholic monastic women's order that originated in the 19th century in Italy.

The nuns appeared in Novogrudok before the war in 1929 at the suggestion of Bishop Zygmunt Lozinsky. During the Great Patriotic War, the sisters were expelled from the monastery and they pitied the Catholic parishioners.

During the occupation, the Nazis arrested and shot Jews. Arrests were also carried out among the Belarusian and Polish populations. In July 1943, 120 residents of Novogrudok, including priest Zenkevich, were arrested. After that, the abbess of the monastery, Sister Maria Stella, appealed to the German authorities with a proposal to release the arrested and offered to replace them with herself. After that, the Nazis arrested 11 nuns and the next day, on August 1, the Nazarene sisters were shot near Novogrudok in a nearby forest.

In 1991, the remains of the nuns were reburied in the chapel of the Church. In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized the Nazarene Sisters. Now the nuns are also known as the Novogrudok Martyrs.