Obj. ID: 45066
Memorials Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Mariiampil, Ukraine, 2010
To the main object: Site of the Jewish cemetery in Mariiampil, Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Mariiampil
Description:
This monument is located on the site of the Jewish Cemetery in Mariiampil, which is now a field. The monument is an upright stele that has a rounded top with shoulders. The Monument has floral ornamentation on its perimeter. Within the ornamentation, there are three inscriptions carved with raised letters. The space between the ornamentation and inscriptions is filled with carved, raised, horizontal stripes of the same height as the letters of the inscriptions. At its bottom, the monument has a small metal plaque with the name of a donor and a year of installation.
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
לז''נ
קדושי קהילה
יהודית ממרימפול
שנהרגו באכזריות
נוראה 1941 - 1945 על ידי ?
הנאצים ימ''ש [=ימח שמם] ...שעס
תנצבה [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: In memory of martyrs of the Jewish community from Mariiampil that were killed with horrible cruelty 1941 -1945 by Nazim, may their names be obliterated .... // May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Ukrainian:
В памʼять про єврейську громаду
Маріямполя що була жорстоко
знищена нацистськими вбивцями
у 1941 - 1945 роках
Translation: In memory of the Jewish community of Mariiampil which was ruthlessly exterminated by the Nazi murderers in 1941 - 1945 years
English:
In memory of the Jewish
community of Mariiampol which was
ruthlessly killed by Nazi murders
in 1941-1945
On the Metal Plaque (Ukrainian):
Памʼятний знак
встановлено
за сприяння
Євроазіатського
Єврейського конгресу
2010 рік
Translation: Memorial sign / was installed / with the assistance / of Euro-Asian / Jewish Congress / 2010 year
Commissioned by
The "Committee for the Revival of Mariiampil" NGO, with financial support of the Rothschild Foundation (Great Britain), and Euro-Asian Jewish Congress
sub-set tree:
In 1939, there were 270 Jews in Mariiampil. During the Holocaust, some of them were killed in the village, and in spring of 1942, more than 150 Jews were deported to Stanisławów. No one survived.
The Monument to the Victims of The Holocaust in Mariiampil was erected in 2010 by the NGO "Committee for the Revival of Mariiampil" with financial support of the Rothschild Foundation (Great Britain). The installation was also partly financed by the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress. The Monument was made from the local stone. Its author is Vasyl Vilshuk, a sculptor and laureate of the Shevchenko Prize.
"Na Prykarpatti vstanovyly pamiatnyk yevreiam, zahyblym u roky viiny," Radio Svoboda, November 8, 2010, https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/2213787.html (accessed May 19, 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, 530.