Obj. ID: 43366
Memorials Holocaust Memorial plaque on the Great Synagogue in Klevan, Ukraine, 1991
To the main object: Great Synagogue in Klevan, Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims, murdered in the synagogue
Description
The plaque is attached to the synagogue building. It has a Ukrainian inscription on the left side and a relief image of women on the right side.
Inscription (Ukrainian):
В цьому будинку
бувшої синагоги
в червні – липні
1941 р. німецько-
фашистські нелю-
ди спалили жив-
цем і вбили біль-
ше 2х сот євреїв
Вічна памʼять
жертвам
фашизму
Translation: In this building of the former synagogue in June – July 1941, German-fascist non-humans burnt alive and killed more than 200 Jews. Eternal memory to the Victims of fascism
Commissioned by
to be determined
4 image(s)
sub-set tree:
During the first days of the occupation of Klevan, Nazi Germans with local collaborators gathered about 500 or 700 Jews on the main square and murdered them, they later brought part of them to the synagogue and burned them there. On April 11, 1942, 30 Jews and 18 Poles were killed near the railroad in Klevan. About 600 Jews were killed in a forest near Klevan on May 13, 1942 [Encyclopedia].
In 1989, a local school teacher, the former head of the village, Arkadii Turchynskyi started to investigate Holocaust in Klevan [Parfeniuk]. Possibly, he became an initiator of the memorialization process in the village.
The memorial plaque was unveiled in October 1991. Regional and district authority representatives took part in the ceremony. Arkadii Turchynskyi took the floor [Dialoh].
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1381–1382.
"Memorialna doshka zahyblym zemliakam-yevreiam," Zmina, October 15, 1991, p. 3.
"Murder Story of Klewań Jews at the Klewań Synagogue,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/killing-site/14627836.
"Nikhto ne zabutyi, nishcho ne zabute!" Dialoh, 39, October, 1991, p. 4.
Parfeniuk, V., Klevan : portret na foni epokh (Rivne, 2013), p. 182–186.