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Memorial Name

Меморіальний монумент споруджений на памʼять про 6 тисяч євреїв, які загинули в роки німецької окупації на Калущині

Translation: Memorial monument built to the memory of 6 thousand Jews, who perished in the years of German occupation in the Kalush district.

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish victims of the Holocaust from the Kalush district

Description

The Monument is located in the Northeastern corner of the Jewish cemetery in Kalush. It stands on a wide concrete base. The monument is an upright concrete stele. Columns support arched vault, giving the monument the profile of a gravestone. The arches space is filled by a black stone plaque with inscriptions in English, Hebrew and Ukrainian. The plaque bears images of a Magen David on the top and a Menorah on the bottom.

Inscriptions

In Ukrainian:

Цей монумент встановлено в памʼять
близько 6-ти тисяч невинних єврейських
дітей, жінок і чоловіків, які загинули під час
німецької окупації 1941-1944 рр. на Калущині
Нехай це служить їм вічним почивальним
місцем

Translation: This monument was installed in memory of / about 6,000 innocent Jewish / children, women and men that perished during / German occupation of 1941-1944 years in Kalush district / Let it serve them as an eternal resting / place

In Hebrew:

אבן זכרון זאת הוקמה לזכר 6000 יהודים נשים גברים
וטף, אשר נרצחו על ידי הכובש הנאצי
בין השנים 1941-1944

תהא נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים 

Translation: This memorial is erected in memory of 6000 Jews, men and women / and children that were murdered by the Nazi occupiers / in the years 1941-1944 // May their souls be bound in the bundle of life

In English:

This plaque is erected in the memory of
approximately 6000 innocent Jewish
children, women and men who were
murdered by the German occupiers in the 
years 1941-1944 in Kalush region. May these
sacred burial grounds serve as their
eternal resting place

Commissioned by

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Name/Title
Holocaust Monument in the Jewish Cemetery in Kalush | Unknown
Object Detail
Date
1995
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Ukraine | Ivano-Frankivska obl. | Kalush (Калуш)
| Bilasa i Danylyshyna street
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