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  Holocaust Memorial in Solotvyn (Sołotwina), Ukraine

© Jewish Galicia and Bukovina N.P.O., http://jgaliciabukovina.net, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2009

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Sołotwina

Description

The monument is located in the vicinity of the fire department in Solotvyn. It is a metal Menorah which sits atop a granite pedestal. Branches of the Menorah are decorated with metal drops. A metal base of the Menorah bears the names of the Twelve tribes of Israel, written in Hebrew, the names in an upper row are written upside down. Two metal plaques with Ukrainian inscriptions are attached to the pedestal. One of them is decorated with barbed wire under the text. The second one is located on the back side of the monument and has information about donors and a sculptor.

Inscriptions

On the front side (Ukrainian)

Хто не памʼятає
минулого, той
не має майбутнього.
Ця менора-памʼять
про майже дві
тисячі солотвин-
ських євреїв,
знищених фашис-
тами в роки
другої світової
війни.

Translation: [Those,] who do not remember / the past, has no future. / This Menorah-memory / about almost two / thousand of Solotvyn / Jews, / exterminated by Fascists / in the years / of the Second World / War.

On the backside (Ukrainian):

Памʼятник
споруджено
на кошти
сімʼї Тайк
Скульптор В.Вільшук

Translation: Monument / is erected / at the expense / of the Taik Family / Sculptor V. Vilshuk

On the metal base in Hebrew:

יוסף, ראובן, יהודה ,שמעון, יששכר
אשר, גד, מנשה, נפתלי, בנימין

Commissioned by

The Taik Family

Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Holocaust Memorial in Solotvyn (Sołotwina) | Unknown
Object Detail
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Date
2005
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Metal, granite
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History/Provenance

According to Liubov Solovka, there were 870 Jews in Sołotwina in 1939. Sołotwina was occupied by the German Army in early July 1941 [Tsal Kaplun Foundation]. On May 5, 1942, 1862 Jews from Sołotwina district were deported to Stanisławów, including 1255 Jews from Sołotwina. In April 1943, 6 or 7 Jews were killed in Sołotwina [Solovka, p. 524]. 

A memorial plaque was installed in Solotvyn in 1967 [Solovka, p. 142]. We could not find any further information about the plaque. 

In 2005, Taik Family erected a new monument "Menorah of the Memory" on the territory of the fire department in Solotvyn ["V prikarpatskom..."]. Initiator of the memorialization, Filip Taik, born in Solotvyn, was a director of an oil company in Siberia. According to local residents, he traveled all over the world to find out how the monument should look like. He also was choosing the right place for it. Taik showed his own design of the memorial to a local teacher and asked if she liked it [Jewish Galicia & Bukovina]. 

According to the chairman of the town, Roman Bondarchuk, Jews were shot at this place. Region and district administration officials, and Solotvyn residents took part in the unveiling ceremony, where a local priest gave a speech ["V prikarpatskom...," Jewish Galicia & Bukovina]. 

A local Ukrainian woman, Mariia Vengren, looked after the monument for some time but then emigrated from the town [Jewish Galicia & Bukovina].

Students and teachers of Solotvyn school-lyceum, laid flowers on the monument on the commemoration day of mass murders in Babyn Yar on September 29, 2021 ["80-ti rokovyny trahedii..."].

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

"80-ti rokovyny trahedii v Babynomu Iaru," Sait Solotvynskoi shkoly-litseiu, September 29, 2021, http://solotvyn-school.if.ua/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201:80-&catid=5:blog&Itemid=6 (accessed September 6, 2023)

"Interview with Mariia Tereshko, Solotvin, part II (IF_Sol_09_06)," Jewish Galicia & Bukovina, http://jgaliciabukovina.net/uk/111765/interview/interview-mariia-tereshko-solotvin-part-ii-ifsol0906 (accessed September 6, 2023)

"Ivano-Frankivska oblast. Skhema planuvannia terytorii (zavershennia). Okhorona nerukhomykh obiektiv kulturnoi spadshchyny", vol. 3 (Kyiv: Derzhavne pidpryiemstvo "Ukrainskyi derzhavnyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut proiektuvannia mist "Dipromisto" imeni Y.M. Bilokonia", 2015), p. 329., https://www.if.gov.ua/storage/app/sites/24/documentu-2022/ivano-frankivska-oblast-2015-tom-3.pdf (accessed May 3, 2023)

"Solotvyn: Solotvyn Area,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1147.html.

Solovka, Liubov and Svitlana Oryshko, 150 iz 150 tysiach... Holokost yevreiv Prykarpattia yak skladova etnodemohrafichnoi Katastrofy Skhidnoi Halychyny, (Ivano-Frankivsk: Foliant, 2019), pp. 142, 524.

"V prikarpatskom poselke Solotvin otkryli pamiatnik zhertvam natsizma," Podrobytsi, October 16, 2005, https://podrobnosti.ua/252688-v-prikarpatskom-poselke-solotvin-otkryli-pamjatnik-zhertvam-natsizma.html (accessed May 3, 2023)
Type
Documenter
Vladimir Levin | 2009
Author of description
Marina Sedova | 2023
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Language Editor
Adam Frisch | 2023
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