Obj. ID: 49744
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial plaque in Ternopil, Ukraine, 1991
Memorial name
Пам’ятне місце, де фашисти розстріляли євреїв
Translation: Memorial place, where fascists shot Jews
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Tarnopol, who were murdered here at the beginning of July 1941
Description
The memorial plaque is located on the left facade of the I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University. It is a black plaster plaque, consisting of three parts. The right panel bears a Ukrainian inscription, the central panel has an image of a tree with broken branches, and the left panel bears a Yiddish inscription with a traditional Hebrew formula at the end. The Yiddish inscription has some misspellings.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian:
Перехожий, зупинись
і схили голову:
тут на початку липня
1941 року фашисти
розстріляли сотні
євреїв – тернополян.
Мир їх душам.
Translation: Passerby, stop / and bow the head: / here at the beginning of July / of 1941, fascists / shot hundreds / of Jews – Ternopil residents. / Peace to their souls.
In Yiddish:
פֿארבּײַגײַער, שטעל זין אָפּ אוּך
בּייג אָן דעם קאָפּ. דאָ, אָנהויבּ
יוּלי 1941, האָבּן די פֿאשיסטן
אריסגעשאָסן טויזנטער
טאַרנאָפּאָלער יידן.
Translation: Passerby, stop and / bow the head. Here at the beginning / of July 1941, the fascists / shot hundreds / of Tarnopol Jews.
In Hebrew:
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Commissioned by
[To be determined]
1 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Length 1.95 m
According to Wikipedia, about 5,000 Jews were shot in Tarnopol between July 2 and 6, 1941, after German troops occupied the city. According to the Tsal Kaplun Foundation, from July 4 through 5, a pogrom led by German soldiers and local collaborators took place, including the burning of a house on Ruska Street with several Jewish families still inside.
The memorial plaque was unveiled in 1991. In 1993, it was included in The List of Monuments of History of Local Significance in the Ternopil region by directive no. 363 of the Ukrainian President representative in Ternopil oblast (protective number 1699).
On January 27, 2022, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated near the plaque [Nash Den].
"Pamiatne mistse, de natsysty rozstrilialy yevreiv,"
Wikipedia, https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Пам'ятне_місце,_де_нацисти_розстріляли_євреїв.
"Tarnopol,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622366.
"Tarnopol: House on Ruska Street,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1362.html.
"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. 129., https://architecture.te.gov.ua/media/uploads/сп__тернопільська_область_том_iiі.pdf (accessed April 25, 2023)
"U Ternopoli vshanuvaly pamiat zhertv Holokostu," Nash Den, January 28, 2022, https://nday.te.ua/u-ternopoli-vshanuvaly-pamyat-zhertv-holokostu/ (accessed December 17, 2023)