Obj. ID: 52533
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial in Zalishchyky, Ukraine, 2011
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Zalishchyky, who were killed here on November 14. 1941
Description
The monument is located on the killing site and mass grave near the stadium. The mass grave is separated from the stadium, and the territory is locked at night. It is a black granite plaque with a Magen David and Ukrainian, English, and Hebrew inscritopns. The plaque is attached to a tilted concrete base. Two granite slabs in a form of a Table of the Law stands behind the plaque.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian:
У памʼять понад 800 мучеників
цього міста, що були вбиті
нацистами 14 листопада 1941 року
Translation: In memory of over 800 Martyrs of this town who were murdered by the Nazis on November 14, 1941
English:
In memory of over 800 Martyrs
of this town who were murdered
by the Nazis on November 14, 1941
Hebrew:
עריבו שברצחו חבאצים
כב חשון תשב לןכר קודשי
Commissioned by
On the initiative of Mila Sandberg Mesner, the Holocaust Survivor from Zalishchyky, resided in Canada, with assistance of the local municipality, financed by the Sandberg Mesner family and other Holocaust survivors from Zalishchyky, resided in the United States, England, Austria and Israel.
sub-set tree:
According to Tsal Kaplun Foundation, about 600 Jews were shot in the Military Barracks in Zalishchyky on November 14, 1941 (this place has different location from the monument). Accordind to Mykhailo Hutor, about 200 Jews were sent to the labor camp in Kamianka, and about 800 Jews were killed on the territory of a military camp in Zalishchyky that day.
Mila Sandberg Mesner, who had survived the Holocaust in Zalishchyky, but had lost many of her relatives, visited her hometown in 2008. She has found there the Jewish mass grave and killing site unmarked and overbuilt by a stadium. After that, she initiated a memorialization process, and encourage her family and the other Zalishchyky Holocaust survivors from different countries to finance the monument [Arnold].
The unveiling ceremony took place on April 28, 2011 [Diakiv]. Volodymyr Beneviat, the Mayor of Zalishchyky, headed the event. Rabbi Noyikh Koffmansky from Chernivtsi, Jewish Holocaust Survivors and local residents participated in the ceremony [Arnold].
Arnold, Janice, "Survivor, 88, Raises Funds for Monument at Massacre Site," The Canadian Jewish News, February 2, 2012, https://thecjn.ca/news/survivor-88-raises-funds-monument-massacre-site/ (accessed November 12, 2023)
Diakiv, Nadiia, "Urodzhenka Zalishchykiv Mila (Amaliia) Sandberh-Mesner. Pravda pro perezhytyi Holokost (prezentatsiia)," May 24, 2016, https://issuu.com/sahadoc/docs/11_________________________________ (accessed November 12, 2023)
Hutor, Mykhailo, Yevrei Ternopilshchyny i zhakh Holokostu (Kyiv: Natsionalnyi storyko-memorialnyi zapovidnyk "Babyn Yar," 2022), p. 50., http://babynyar.gov.ua/sites/default/files/broshura_yevreyi_ternopilshchyny_i_zhah_golokostu_compressed.pdf (accessed November 13, 2023)
"Zaleshchiki: Military Barracks,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1468.html.