Obj. ID: 47870
Memorials Holocaust memorial in Turiisk, Ukraine
Memorial name
Могила розстріляних євреїв
Translation: Grave of shot Jews
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Turiisk and the vicinity, who were murdered and buried here
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave and killing site near Turiisk. It is a black stone rectangular stele on a base. The stele bears a Magen David and Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions. The base bears Hebrew, English, and Ukrainian inscriptions. The site is surrounded by a metal fence decorated with stars of David.
Inscriptions
On the headstone
Hebrew:
פ.נ.
תושבי הקהילה היהודית
בעיירה טוריסק והסביבה
שנרצחו ע”י הנאצים הגרמניים
ועוזריהם המקומיים
בשנת 1942 - י באלול תש”ב
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. הי”ד
Translation: Here are buried residents of the Jewish community in Turiisk city and the vicinity, who were murdered by the German Nazis and their local assistants in 1942 – 10 Elul 5702. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life. May God avenge their blood
Ukrainian:
Тут поховані євреї Турійська
та навколишніх сіл розстріля-
них німецько-фашистськими
окупантами та їх посібниками
10 вересня 1942 р.
Вічна їм памʼять...
Translation: Here are buried Jews of Turiisk and surrounding villages, shot by the German fascist occupiers and their accomplices on September 1942. Eternal memory to them...
On the base
Hebrew:
אתר ההנצחה שוקם ביוזמת ועד יוצאי
טריסק בישראל, ובוצע במימון סם בוימל
ניצול שואת טריסק ורעייתו רחל,
תושבי סינסינטי ארצות הברית.
English:
This memorial's renovation
was initiated by
the Israeli Turisk Veternas Committee
and was funded by donation from
Sam Boimel, a Houlorcoust Survivor
And his wife, Rachel,
residents of Cinncinaty, USA
Ukrainian:
Світлій памʼяті жертв фашизму
Побудовано за ініціативою Ізраїльського
комітету уродженців містечка Турійська
на пожертвування пана Сем[а] Б[ойм]еля,
який вижив під час Катастрофи в
Турійську, та його дружини [Рахелі]
Цинцин[аті]
Translation: Blessed memory of the Victims of fascism. Built on the initiative of the Israel Committee of the natives of Turiisk shtetl on the donations of Sam Boimel, who survived during the Holocaust in Turiisk and his wife Rachel. Cinncinaty
Commissioned by
Renovation funded by the Turiisk Holocaust Survivor Sam Boimel and his wife Rachel from the USA
9 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Mass killings took place near a brick factory in Turiisk. In July 1941, 10 Jews were murdered here. On August 23, 1942, 1,512 Jews from Turiisk and surroundings were executed at the same place. The monument was erected in 1993 and renovated in 2000 [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
On June 22, 1999, the Executive Committee of the Turiisk Village Council included the killing site on the The List of Monuments of History of Local Significance by the decision no. 415-р [Perohanych].
On September 3, 2000, Sam Boimel and other Turiisk natives from Israel and the USA unveiled the renovated monument. Boimel also put in order the mass graves. Sergei Shvardovskyi, the head of the Lutsk Jewish community with schoolchildren look after the mass graves [Yad Vashem].
"Execution of Jews from Turiysk,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/en/#village/turiysk-volyn-ukraine.308.
see "Perelik pamiatok istorii Volynskoi oblasti, shcho perebuvaiut pid okhoronoiu derzhavy stanom na 01.10.2008r." in
Perohanych, Yurii, "Pamiatky Volynskoi oblasti," Wikimedia Ukraina, June 11, 2012, https://blog.wikimedia.org.ua/2012/06/11/vol-2/ (accessed May 9, 2024)
"Turiysk: Brick Factory,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0760.html.
"Turzysk,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622139.