Img. ID: 108685
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Horodenka, who were murdered and buried here on December 4, 1941
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in the forest between the Mykhalche and Semakivtsi villages. It is a rectangular upright stele with a cut upper-right corner. A short Ukrainian inscription without any details about the events or victims is carved into the stone. Hebrew, Ukrainian, English, and Yiddish inscriptions are written with white letters on a separate black plaque, which seems to have been bolted to the bottom of the headstone under the original Ukrainian inscription sometime after the monument was erected. At the top of the plaque, there are two blue Magen Davids, which highlight the Hebrew words "Mass grave." The Ukrainian inscription has several mistakes.
Inscriptions
On the stone (Ukrainian):
Жертвам
фашизму
1941 - 1942
Translation: To the victims of fascism 1941-1942
Inscriptions on the plaque:
Hebrew:
קבר אחים
בי"ד בכסלו תש"ב רצחו הנאצים במקום זה
2,500 יהודים-גברים נשים וטף מהורודנקה והסביבה.
יהי זכרם ברוך לעולמי עד.
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
Translation: Mass grave / On Kislev 14, 5702 [=December 4, 1941] nazis murdered at this place 2,500 Jews - men, women and children from Horodenka and the vicinity. May their memory be blessed forever. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
Ukrainian:
Братська могила 2500 евреів з Городенки
і округи, ще були звірськи убиті
в цему місці 4 грудня 1941 року.
Вічна памʼять ім і всім евреям,
що загинули від рук націстів в 1941-1945.
Translation: Mass grave of 2,500 Jews from Horodenka and vicinity, who were brutally killed at this place on December 4, 1941. Eternal memory to them and all the Jews, who perished from the hands of nazis in 1941-1945.
English:
Mass grave of 2,500 Jews - adults and
children - from Horodenka and the vicinity
who were murdered here by nazis in dec. 4, 1941.
May the memory of the Holocaust martyrs
be blessed forever.
Yiddish:
אויף דעם אורט זענען געהארגעט
געוארען פון נאצי מערדערס 2,500 יידען
פון הורוגנקה און די סביבה.
Translation: At this place, 2,500 Jews from Horodenka and the vicinity were killed by nazi murderers.
Commissioned by
The Soviet Authority