Obj. ID: 50139
Memorials First Holocaust memorial in Volodymyr Volynskyi, Ukraine, 1944
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Volodymyr Volynskyi, murdered here
Description
The monument was located on the killing site. It was a stone pedestal-shaped monument with some decorations. It is unknown if there were any inscriptions on it.
Inscription
[Unknown]
Commissioned by
Holocaust Survivors
1 image(s)
sub-set tree:
In 1937, the Jewish population of Włodzimierz Wołynski (now Volodymyr Volynskyi) was more than 11,500. On June 23, 1941 German troops entered the city. The Ghetto was established on April 13, 1942. According to different estimates, there were 15,000 - 18,000 Jews in the Ghetto. During two weeks in September 1942, Nazi Germans and Ukrainian police representatives shot about 14,000 Jews in Piatydni [Encyclopedia].
According to Volodymyr Muzychenko, the first monument on the killing site in Piatydni was erected by the local survivors in 1944.
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1496-1499..
Muzychenko, Volodymyr, Volodymyr yevreiskyi. Istoriia i trahediia yevreiskoi hromady m. Volodymyra-Volynskoho (Lutsk: Volynska oblasna drukarnia, 2011), p. 208.
CJA documentation, see CJA ID 26773.