Obj. ID: 51614
Memorials Monument at the Mass Grave in Derazhnia, Ukraine, 1970
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
3,814 Jews of Derazhnia and nearby villages killed at this site
Description:
Inscription
Commissioned by
Jews from Derazhnia
sub-set tree: 
3,814 Jews of Derazhnia and nearby villages were shot dead in September 1942, behind the brick factory.
The initiative for the monument was put forward by Zina Vrublevskaia, the creator of the local museum of WWII. She demanded from the local authorities to care for the mass grave of killed Jews, but in vain. Later, a committee was established in order to build a monument. Committee members collected money from the local Jews and the Jews from Derazhnia in other cities of the USSR. They also reinterred the remains of the victims dispersed over large territory into several mass graves. A concrete obelisk was placed on the pit where children were killed. (Lukin and Khaimovich, p. 88).
The monument was unveiled in September 1970. A speech at the opening ceremony was given by Prof. Birman from Moscow, a native of Derazhnia (Lukin and Khaimovich, p. 89).
In 1975, it was listed as a protected monument (Lukin and Khaimovich, p. 88).
Commemorative events by the relatives of the victims were held at the monument for many years (Lukin and Khaimovich, p. 89).
Lukin, Beniamin and Boris Khaimovich, 100 evreiskikh mestechek Ukrainy: istoricheskii putevoditel’, vol. 1 (Jerusalem - St. Petersburg: Ezro, 1997), pp. 88-89.
Zeltser, Arkadi, Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union, trans. A.S. Brown (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2018), p. 255, n. 88.
For a phot, see Yad Vashem Archives, https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/photos/51435