Obj. ID: 53274
Memorials Memorial sign at the killing site near the railroad in Klevan, Ukraine
Memorial name
Могила 48 загиблих мирних жителів, розстріляних німецько-фашистськими окупантами та їх прислужниками
Translation: Grave of 48 perished civilian residents, shot by German-Fascist invaders and their henchmen
Who is Commemorated?
30 Jews and 18 Poles, murdered near the railroad in Klevan on April 11, 1942
Description
The monument is located on the killing site near the railroad in Klevan. It is a metal plaque on three metal columns. The plaque bears a Ukrainian inscription.
Inscription (Ukrainian)
На цьому місці
захоронено 48 мирних
жителів розстріляних
німецько ???
??? i
їх прислужниками
11-04-1942 р.
Вічна
памʼять
загиблим
Translation: At this place, 48 civilian residents, shot by German ... and their servicemen on April 11, 1942, are buried. Eternal memory to the perished [people].
sub-set tree:
During the first days of the occupation of Klevan, Nazi Germans with local collaborators gathered about 500 or 700 Jews on the main square and murdered them, they later brought part of them to the synagogue and burned them there. On April 11, 1942, 30 Jews and 18 Poles were killed near the railroad in Klevan. About 600 Jews were killed in a forest near Klevan on May 13, 1942 [Encyclopedia].
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1381–1382.
"Klewań" and "Murder Story of Klewań Jews at the Klewań Railway Station,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622504-Klewań, https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/killing-site/14627839.
Photo of the monument: https://cf.ppt-online.org/files1/slide/b/BANzb4XU2QCdc51uRKnZG3OxElM6fjJqwrvPVH/slide-40.jpg (in the presentation of Klevan territorial community of 2018: https://en.ppt-online.org/379611)
