After World War II , Poland 's borders were redrawn in accordance with the decisions by the Allies at the Yalta Conference of 1945 . Grodno ( Cyrillic : Гродно ) once again became part of the Byelorussian SSR . The Jewish community was never restored . According to '' Encyclopedia Judaica '' : " In the mid-1950s the Jewish cemetery was plowed up . Tombstones were taken away and used for building a monument to Lenin . " After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 , Grodno has been one of the district centres of the Grodno Region in sovereign Belarus
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference
Grodno Ghetto