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  Holocaust memorial in the Christian cemetery in Pochaiv, Ukraine, 1990s - 2000s (?)

© ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Photographer: Arshynov, Hryhoriy, 2019

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Community of Pochaiv

Description

The monument is located in the Christian cemetery near the mass grave in Pochaiv, which is enclosed by black metal chains and pillars. It is a stone square-shaped laying slab with a Ukrainian inscription.  

Inscription (Ukrainian):

На цьому місці
буде встановлено
памʼятник
35 тисячній
єврейській громаді
м. Почаєва
яку знищили
фашисти у 1942 р.

Translation: On this place will be erected a monument to the 35 thousand Jewish community of Pochaiv city, which fascists exterminated in 1942.

Commissioned by

[To be determined]

Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Holocaust memorial in the Christian cemetery in Pochaiv | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Date
1990s - 2000s (?)
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Community type
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Unknown
Location
Ukraine | Ternopilska obl. | Pochaiv (Почаїв)
| In the cemetery, opposite to 44, Lypova Street
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
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0
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Custom
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History/Provenance

According to Yad Vashem and Tsal Kaplun Foundation, several hundreds of Jews were taken to the tank trenches behind the Polish cemetery and shot there in on August 3, 1942. Based on German reports, 794 Jews were killed there. The Soviet Extraordinary State Commission estimated the number of victims as 2,000 [Yad Vashem].

The first monument on the mass grave had the information that a monument will be erected here. The date of creation of the monument is unknown. It is also unclear, where did the information about 35,000 Victims on the monument come from. Seemingly, some years after the appearance of the first memorial slab, another monument was erected on the same mass grave, the date of its creation is also unknown.

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources
Type
Documenter
ESJF | 2019
Author of description
Marina Sedova | 2023
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The following information on this monument will be completed: