Obj. ID: 44871
Memorials Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Berezhany, Ukraine, 1990
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Berezhany (Brzeżany), Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Berezhany
Description
The monument is located at the killing site in the Jewish cemetery in Berezhany. It is a black stone horizontal slab lying atop a concrete base. Short Yiddish and Ukrainian inscriptions with a Magen David and a torch are carved on the monument. The word "Victims" in Yiddish is written phonetically, as used to be in Soviet Yiddish orthography, whereas Yiddish final letters, which was not typical for Soviet Yiddish, are present in the inscription.
Inscriptions
Yiddish:
קארבאנעס
פון דער פאשיזם
Translation: Victims of the fascism
Ukrainian:
Жертвам
фашизму
1941
1942
Translation: To the victims of fascism 1941 – 1942
Commissioned by
[To be determined]
sub-set tree: 
| Between houses 12 and 13 on Mykoly Bezdilnoho Street.
According to the Tsal Kaplun Foundation, Berezhany was occupied by the German Army on July 3, 1941. In 1941–1942, mass murders of Jews took place in and around Berezhany. In 1943, mass murders took place in the Jewish cemetery. About 300 Jews were killed there on April 2, 1943. On June 12 of that year, 1,500 Jews were shot in the cemetery.
According to Wikipedia, the monument was erected in 1990.
The Head of Berezhany, other city officials, and employees of the Local History Museum of Berezhany visited the mass grave and laid stones to the monument on January 27, 2021, after the main commemoration activities dedicated to the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which took place near the synagogue in Berezhany [Berezhanska miska rada].
"27 Sichnia - Mizhnarodnyi den pamiati zhertv Holokostu," Berezhanska miska rada, January 27, 2021, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=121983089790726 (accessed November 4, 2023)
"Berezhany: The Okopysko Tract,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1355.html.
"Getto w Brzeżanach,"
Wikipedia, https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getto_w_Brzeżanach.
"The Guide: Memorial Monument Design, Development, and Care,"
A Guide to Jewish Cemetery Preservation in Western Ukraine (Rohatyn Jewish Heritage), https://jewishheritageguide.net/en/guide/memorial.