Img. ID: 573190

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust Victims from the Rohatyn district and the surrounding areas, who were murdered and buried here on March 20, 1942

Description:

The Monument is located at the mass grave in the South of Rohatyn. It is a concrete block-form of composition monument. There are two black plaques with inscriptions in Ukrainian and English at the top of the Monument. A third plaque, with an inscription in Hebrew and a Magen David, is attached to the front side of the block. The monument is surrounded by a metal fence, and a part of its front section has the form of a Menorah worked into it. The ground in front of the monument is paved with square concrete slabs.

Inscriptions

In Ukrainian:

Тут поховано 3500
євреїв жителів міста
Рогатина та його
околиць по-звірячому
вбитих німецькими
нацистами 20.03.1942 р.
Вічна память

Translation: Here are buried 3,500 Jews, residents of the city of Rohatyn and its surroundings brutally killed by the German nazis on March 20, 1942 / Eternal memory

In English:

Here lie 3500 Jews
citizens of Rohatyn
and its surrounding
areas who were
brutally killed by
the German Nazis
on the 20-th of
March, 1942
God rest their souls

In Hebrew:

פנ
קורבנות של יהודים תושבי רוהאטין
והסביבה שנרצחו ע"י [=על ידי] הנאצים בתאריך 42|3|20
הי"ד [=השם יקום דמם] ב׳ ניסן תש"ג

Translation: Here rest victims of Jewish residents of Rohatyn and surroundings who were killed by the hands of nazis on March 20, 1942 / May God avenge their blood 2 of Nisan 5703 [=March 20, 1942]

Commissioned by

Rohatyn Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants