Obj. ID: 14099
Memorials Holocaust memorial at the Yanovska camp in Lviv, Ukraine, 1993
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
The Victims of the Yaniv death camp
Description:
The monument is located near the entrance to the former Yanovska camp in Lviv. It is a large stone with the number 200,000 and a Magen David at the top. The stone also features inscriptions in Ukrainian, Yiddish, and English. The date of its erection and the name of the organization that founded it are carved on the lower left part of the stone.
Inscriptions
200✡000
Ukrainian:
Памʼяті жертв
фашистського геноциду
Янівського табору смерті
Translation: To the memory of the Victims of the fascist genocide in the Yanov death camp
Yiddish:
צום זפרון [=זכרון] פון קרבנות
פונעם פאשיסטישן גענאציד
אין יאנאווער טויט לאגער
Translation: To the memory of the Victims of the fascist genocide in the Yanov death camp
English:
Let the memory of all
the Nazi genocide Victims
in Janowska death camp
remain forever
1941–1943
At the bottom left (Ukrainian):
Фундатор
Міжнародний
Меморіальний
Фонд
Янівський табір
Встановлено
20 Х 1993
Translation: Founder – International Memorial Foundation Yanivskyi Tabir [Yanivskyi Camp]. Erected on October 20, 1993.
Commissioned by
International Memorial Foundation Yanivskyi Tabir [Yanivskyi Camp]
sub-set tree: 
Several thousands of Jews were murdered in Yanivsky Camp and approximately 200,000 Jews went through it [Center for Urban History].
According to the inscription on the stone, it was erected in 1993 by the International Memorial Foundation Yanivskyi Tabir.
To the right of the stone, the Lviv City Council, the Urban History Center and other organizations installed a large board, providing information about the history of the site and the murder of Jews, Poles, Ukrainians, and representatives of other ethnic groups. Another board is located on the territory of the former camp, also informing about events at the Yanovska camp. This board was erected in 2003 and renewed in 2013 by the International Center 'Holocaust' named after A. Shwarts ["Sign at Memorial to Janowska Death Camp..."].
In 2010, the Lviv City Council together with the Center for Urban History announced a competition of design and landscape projects for memorialization of three places in Lviv, connected with Jewish history. It included the Yanivsky Camp Memorial, the site of the Synagogue Square, and Besojlem Memorial Park. The project aimed at the memorialization of a part of the former camp where mass murders took place. However, the organizers did not exclude the possibility that a part of the former camp with barracks, which is currently used by a penal colony, could be included in the monument in the future, and its premises could be used for a museum [Rishennia; International Design Competition for Sites of Jewish History in Lviv/Ukraine _ Documentation].
The first prize in the competition took Ming-Yu Ho from the USA [International Design Competition for Sites of Jewish History in Lviv/Ukraine _ Documentation, p. 50].
Commemoration events take place near the monument on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day [Istorychna pravda, Yad Vashem].
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