Obj. ID: 53713
Memorials Holocaust memorial on Bakhova Hora in Rafalivka, Ukraine, 1999
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims, who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located at the killing site and mass grave in a forest on Bakhova hora near Rafalivka. There is a fenced memorial sign with a Magen David and a Ukrainian inscription near the road leading to the mass grave. The mass grave is located deeper in the forest and is surrounded by a metal fence. A stone monument with marble plaques on a tilted surface is located on the territory of the mass grave. The plaques have neither inscriptions nor decorations.
Inscription (Ukrainian):
Товаришу,
зупинись!
Тут у 1942 році
фашистськими
загарбниками
було розстріляно
2500 громадян
єврейської
національності
Translation: Comrade, stop! Here in 1942, 2,500 citizens of Jewish nationality were shot by the fascist occupiers
Commissioned by
To be determined
sub-set tree: 
During the liquidation of the Rafalivka ghetto on August 29, 1942, the Nazis murdered about 2,500 Jews from Rafalivka and surrounding villages on the Bakhova Hora [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
The monument was unveiled in 1999. Jewish Holocaust Survivors from Israel took part in the ceremony.
The mass graves were vandalized two times in 2018 and 2019. After the first plundering of graves, local residents organized work on the site, they gathered needed equipment, brought eight trucks of sand, and put the graves in order. The local authority contacted the police about the vandalizing. The police opened a criminal case and started investigation ["Chorni Arkheolohy..."].
"Execution of Jews in Rafalivka,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/rafalivka-rafalovka-rivne-ukraine.725.
Geolocation and inscription:
"Tochka: Bratska mohyla rozstrilianykh yevreiv (4538628943)," OpenStreetMap, https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4538628943#map=16/51.3277/25.9844 (accessed April 30, 2024)
"Hosti iz Izrailiu vidvidaly Bakhovu horu (+foto)," Art-media Polissia, June 25, 2015, http://polissya.net/narodny-liystrator/2525-gosti-iz-izraily-vidvidalu-bakhovy-gory.html (accessed April 30, 2024)
"Rafalivka: Bakhova Gora,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0930.html.
Skibchyk, Serhii, "'Chorni arkheolohy' spliundruvaly mistse rozstrilu yevreiv na 'Bakhovii hori' pid Rafalivkoiu," Volodymyrets.Sity, March 4, 2019, https://volodymyrets.city/articles/25394/chorni-arheologi-splyundruvali-misce-rozstrilu-evreiv-na-bahovij-gori-pid-rafalivkoyu (accessed April 30, 2024)
Skibchyk, Serhii, "Vandaliv, yaki rozkopuvaly mistse masovoho rozstrilu i pokhovannia yevreieiv na Bakhovii hori, shukaiut," Volodymyrets.City, March 21, 2019, https://volodymyrets.city/articles/26676/vandaliv-yaki-rozkopuvali-misce-masovogo-rozstrilu-i-pohovannya-evreeiv-na-bahovij-gori-shukayut (accessed April 30, 2024)