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  Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Kamianets Podilskyi, Ukraine, late 1940s

© Vladimir Levin, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2012

Memorial Name

No official name

Who/What is Commemorated?

 Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Kamianets Podilskyi

Description:

The monument is situated in the Jewish cemetery and marks three mass graves.

It is a large square block with a bevel upper part, topped by a decorative turret. Plaque with almost identical Yiddish and Russian inscriptions are situated on two sides of the block. The inscriptions are similar to those at the memorial at the murder place in Kam'ianets-Podil's'kyi.

Inscription:

Yiddish in Soviet orthography:

זאלנ דוירעס
געדיינקענ אונדזערע
פאטערס אונ מוטערס
ברידער אונ שוועסטער
די נע?טע זינ אונ
טעכטער פונ אונדזער
פאלק - וועלכע
זיינען מערדעריש
דערהארגעט געווארנ
פינעוו טאג אונ
נוידטענ אלול
אינ 1941-טנ יאר
פונ די דייטשישע
פאשיסטנ

Translation: Generation will remember our fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of our people - which were brutally murdered on the fifth day and the ninth [day of] Elul in the year 1941 by German Fascists.

Russian:

Вечная память
отцам матерям
братьям и сестрам
детям и внукам
варварски замученным
пятого дня
месяца элул, август
1941 года
немецко-фашистскими
извергами

Translation: Eternal memory to fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, children, and grandchildren, brutally tormented [to death] on the fifth day of the month of Elul, August 1941 by German-Fascist monsters.

Commissioned by

Jewish survivors in Kamianets Podilskyi

 

Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Kamianets-Podilskyi | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Date
late 1940s
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Artist/ Maker
Historical Origin
Community type
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Congregation
Unknown
Location
Ukraine | Khmelnytska obl. | Kamianets-Podilskyi (Камʼянець-Подільський)
| Mykoly Hordiichuka Street and Serhiia Bondarchuka Street, Bilanivka (Біланівка)
Site
Unknown
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23 image(s)    items per page
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Brick, concrete, marble plaques
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Historical significance: Event/Period
Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
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Direction/Location
Façade (main)
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Location of Women's Section
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Direction Toward Jerusalem
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Sources

Zeltser, Arkadi, Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union, trans. A.S. Brown (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2018), pp. 132-133.
Type
Documenter
Vladimir Levin, Arkadi Zeltser | 2012, 2014
Author of description
VLadimir Levin | 2025
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