Obj. ID: 44865
Memorials Holocaust memorial at the site of the New Jewish cemetery in Borshchiv, Ukraine, 2011
Memorial Name
Пам’ятне місце розстрілів та братська могила євреїв – жертв німецьких фашистів
Translation: Memorial site of the shootings and mass grave of the Jews – Victims of the German fascists
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Korolivka, Borshchiv, Skala-Podilska, Ozeryany, Melnytsia-Podilska and Kryvche, murdered by the Nazis in 1941–1943
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in Borshchiv. It looks like a grave with a granite borders half covered with a horizontal slab. Atop the grave, there is an upright stele with a Magen David and Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions.
Inscriptions
In Hebrew:
גל עד
לזכר אלפי קדושי בירשציוב, סקאלה,
אוזירן, קורולובקה, מיילניצה, קריבץ'. וכפרי
הסביב שנרצחו באביב תש''ג עיי' הנאצים
הגרמנים ועוזריהם י''ש ושנטמנו בקבר אחים
בשדה זה, לשעבר בית עלמין שנחרב.
ה' יקום את דמם הטהור
תנצב''ה
הוקם בשנת תשנייא ע''י שרידי הקהילות הנ''ל
חודש בשנת תשע''א
Translation: Memorial // In memory of thousands of martyrs from Borshchiv, Skala [Podilska], Ozeryany, Korolivka, Melnytsia [Podilska], Kryvche, and villages around the place, who were murdered in the spring of 1943 by the Nazi Germans and their supporters, may their names be obliterated, and placed in the mass grave in this field that once was a cemetery, later demolished. May God avenge their blood. // May their souls be bound in the bundle of life // Built in 1991 by the survivors from the communities mentioned above, renovated in 2011
In Ukrainian:
Перехожий зупинись на мить!
Translation: Passersby, stop for a moment! In this mass grave are buried thousands of Jewish residents of Korolivka, Borshchiv, Skala-Podilska, Ozeryany, Melnytsia-Podilska and Kryvche, murdered by the Nazis in 1941–1943. Pray for their souls, that such will never happen again to anyone. Erected in 2011 by the compatriots from those communities, which has survived.
Commissioned by
Jewish Holocaust Survivors
sub-set tree: 
| At the intersection of Makoveya Street and Shevchenka Street
The Nazis occupied Borshchiv on July 7, 1941 [Tsal Kaplun Foundation]. The Borshchiv Ghetto was created on April 1, 1942, there were about 4,000 Jews there. A number of Jews were deported to the Bełżec killing center and Yaniv concentration camp in Lviv during 1942–1943. Mass murders took place in the Jewish cemetery and other places in the town. On September 26, 1942, about 100 Jews were killed on the square. On April 19, 1943, German and Ukrainian policemen shot about 800 Jews in the cemetery. On June 5 of that year, another 700 Jews were murdered there. Between June 9 and 14, 1943, about 1,800 Jews were executed in the town. Shortly after the ghetto liquidation in July 1943, 360 Jews were killed in Borshchiv [Wikipedia].
Soviet authority built a stadium on the site of the demolished Jewish cemetery. In 1990, a part of the stadium territory was separated for the erection of a monument [Dadarchuk]. According to the Hebrew inscription on the monument, Jewish Holocaust Survivors installed it in 1991 and renovated in 2011. According to Max Heffler and Helene Kenvin, the monument was not renovated, but replaced to a new very similar monument in 2011, because of the destruction of the previous one.
Department of the Culture of the Ternopil Regional State Administration included the monument in The List of the Recently Discovered Objects of History, Which Suggested for Inclusion in the List of the Monuments of Cultural Heritage of the National or Local Significance by its order no. 112 on October 18, 2005 (protected number 1303) ["Ternopilska oblast..."].
"Borshchev: Jewish Cemetery,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1457.html.
"Borshchiv Ghetto,"
Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borshchiv_Ghetto.
Dadarchuk, Kateryna, "Istoryko-kulturni homohenni resursy Ternopilskoi oblasti: suchasnyi stan zberezhennia i vykorystannia v mizhnarodnomu turyzmi," Istoriia ukrainskoi heografii, vol. 26 (2012), 123–127, https://tourlib.net/statti_ukr/dudarchuk.htm (accessed November 19, 2023)
Heffler, Max and Helene Kenvin, "Memorials to the Martyrs of Skala Who Perished in the Holocaust,"
JewishGen, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/skalapodol/MemorialsToMartyrs.html.
Photos of the first monument:
Mermelstein Max et al., Skala on the River Zbrucz (USA: Skala Research Group and Skala Benevolent Society, 2009), p. 405., https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/skalapodilska2009.compressed.pdf (accessed November 19, 2023)
"Ternopilska oblast. Skhema planuvannia terytorii (prodovzhennia roboty). Okhorona nerukhomykh obiektiv kulturnoi spadshchyny", vol. 3 (Kyiv: Derzhavne pidpryiemstvo "Ukrainskyi derzhavnyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut proiektuvannia mist "Dipromisto" imeni Y.M. Bilokonia", 2017), p. 313., https://architecture.te.gov.ua/media/uploads/сп__тернопільська_область_том_iiі.pdf (accessed April 25, 2023)