Obj. ID: 44709
Memorials Memorial to the Jews of Bohorodchany in the New Jewish Cemetery in Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine
To the main object: New Jewish Cemetery in Ivano Frankivsk (Stanisławów), Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Bohorodchany
Description
This Monument is located approximately in the middle of the New Jewish Cemetery in Ivano-Frankivsk. It is a pyramid, which sits atop a concrete base and consists of small cemented stones. There are two black stone plaques on the front of the Monument. The top plaque bears a Magen David and an inscription in Hebrew. The bottom plaque bears inscriptions in English and Ukrainian.
Inscriptions
In Hebrew:
ונתתי להם בבתי ובחומותי יד ושם [ישעיהו נ״ו]
פה נקברו בקבר אחים קדשי
עיר בראָדצ׳ין
אשר הושמדו ע"י הנצים ועוזריהם ימ"ש [=ימח שמם]
עלו עקד"ה [=על קדושת השם] ראש חדש תמוז תש"ב
_._
הונצח ע"י בני עירם וקרוביהם
משפחת האַסטען והאלפערן
מארה"ק [=מארץ הקודש] וארה"ב [=ארצות הברית]
_._
Translation: I will give them, in My House and within My walls, a monument and a name [Isaiah 56:1, JPS, 1985] / Here buried in the mass grave the holy martyrs /of the town Bohorodczany / who were murdered by the Nazis and their cohorts, May their names be obliterated / [The martyrs] were sacrificed for the sanctification of the Name on Rosh Hodesh Tammuz, 1942 // [Their memory was] dedicated by the city natives and their relatives/ the Hasten and Halpern families / from the United States and the Holy Land [=Israel].
In English:
Here rest the holy martyrs of the town Bohorodczany
who were murdered by the Nazis and their cohorts
June 16, 1942
_._
They will live forever
in the hearts of their family and friends,
the Hasten and Halpern families
of Israel and the United States
_._
In Ukrainian:
Тут покояться святі мученики міста Богородчани,
які були вбиті нацистами та їх приспішниками
16 червня 1942 року
_._
Вони будуть жити назавжди
в серцях їх сімʼї та друзів,
сімей Гастен та Гальперн
з Ізраілю та Сполучених Штатів Америки
Translation: Here rest the holy martyrs of the town Bohorodczany / who were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen / on June 16, 1942 // They will live forever / in the hearts of their family and friends, / Hasten and Halpern families / from Israel and the United States of America
Commissioned by
Hasten and Halpern Families
sub-set tree:
In 1939, there were 860 Jews in Bohorodczany [Solovka and Oryshko, p. 524]. In the spring of 1942, Nazis began to deport Jews from the towns and villages of Stanisłaawów district to the Stanisławów Ghetto. From Bohorodczany, 800 Jews were brought to Stanisławów on May 11 and 70 Jews in November. The Jews from the Stanisławów district were placed in the Rudolf's mill and the Shusman Factory in the Stanisławów Ghetto, some of them were also deported to the Bełżec killing center. Every Saturday from July until October 1942, Nazis brought 500 Jews from the Rudolf's mill and the Shusman Factory to the New Jewish cemetery and shot them there [Solovka, Liubov, and Svitlana Oryshko, p. 142].
Memorialization activities in the New Jewish Cemetery in Ivano-Frankivsk started in the 1940s. The first monument was erected by the Local Jewish Survivors [Zeltser]. It is designed to not stand out among the other graves in the cemetery.
A second monument was erected by the Soviet authorities in 1964 ["Ivano-Frankivska oblast"]. The inscription does not specify the ethnicity of the victims and indicates that more than 100,000 Soviet citizens were killed at this place. According to Solovka, it contributed to the emergence of the myth about the number of people killed in the New Jewish Cemetery [Solovka, Liubov and Svitlana Oryshko, p. 460]. The Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Executive Committee included the monument to The List of Monuments of History and Monumental Art of Local Significance in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region by decision no. 612/4 on November 28, 1969 ["Ivano-Frankivska oblast"].
Further memorialization activity took place in Independent Ukraine. In the 2000s, a Memorial to 120,000 victims of the Holocaust was erected by the Local Jewish Community. It is the highest and the most outstanding monument in the cemetery, its inscription does not specify, that all the 120,000 Jews were killed in the New Jewish Cemetery in Ivano-Frankivsk. Therefore, it can be assumed, that it is dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust from the whole Stanisławów region [Solovka and Oryshko, p. 461–462].
There are also two monuments that commemorate smaller Jewish communities. A memorial to Jews from the vicinities of Stanisławów was erected by the Local Jewish Community in the 2000s [Solovka and Oryshko, p. 461–462, 560]. This Monument is dedicated to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Bohorodchany. Hasten and Halpern Families installed it in the cemetery in August 2002 [Levin]. The date June 16, 1942, is mentioned in the inscription as a date of the mass murder of Jews from Bohorodchany. We could not find any information about events in the cemetery on that day, and we do not know on what information the author of the epitaph was based. The phrase "Here rest" in the epitaph most likely means not the exact place, where the monument stands, but the whole cemetery because there are no precisely defined mass graves in the New Jewish Cemetery in Ivano-Frankivsk.
"Ivano-Frankivska oblast. Skhema planuvannia terytorii (zavershennia). Okhorona nerukhomykh obiektiv kulturnoi spadshchyny", vol. 3 (Kyiv: Derzhavne pidpryiemstvo "Ukrainskyi derzhavnyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut proiektuvannia mist "Dipromisto" imeni Y.M. Bilokonia", 2015), p. 207., https://www.if.gov.ua/storage/app/sites/24/documentu-2022/ivano-frankivska-oblast-2015-tom-3.pdf (accessed May 3, 2023)
Levin, Vladimir. "Bohorodczany (Brotchin) - after WWII," Jewish Galicia and Bukovina, August 7, 2009, http://jgaliciabukovina.net/134269/article/bohorodczany-brotchin-after-wwii (accessed May 5, 2023)
Solovka, Liubov and Svitlana Oryshko, 150 iz 150 tysiach... Holokost yevreiv Prykarpattia yak skladova etnodemohrafichnoi Katastrofy Skhidnoi Halychyny, (Ivano-Frankivsk: Foliant, 2019), pp. 142, 460–462, 524, 560.
Zeltser, Arkadi, Unwelcome Memory: Holocaust Monuments in the Soviet Union, trans. A.S. Brown (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2018), pp. 124–125.