Obj. ID: 47791
Memorials Holocaust memorial in Berezne, Ukraine, 1980s
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Berezne and surroundings, who were killed here on August 25, 1942
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in Berezne. It is two almost symmetric black marble slabs. The left slab bears an image of a torch and a Russian inscription, which does not mention the ethnicity of the Victims. The right slab bears a Magen David, a Menorah, and a Hebrew inscription.
Inscriptions
Russian
На этом месте
25 августа 1942 г.
немецко-фашистскими
оккупантами
были расстреляны
3680
советских граждан
Translation: At this place, 3,680 Soviet citizens were shot by German fascist occupiers on August 25, 1942
Hebrew
לזכר קדושי ברז’נה והסביבה
שנרצחו ונקברו חיים ביום י”ב אלול
תש”ב, אוג’ 1942
ע”י הגרמנים הנאצים ועוזריהם ימ”ש
”ואתה את דמינו אוסף בכדים
כי אין לו אוסף מלבדן”
נ. אלתרמן
קול דמי אחינו זועק מאדמה זו [Gen. 4:10]
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of Berezne who were murdered and buried alive on 12 Elul 5702, August 1942 by Nazi Germans and their helpers. May their names be obliterated. // "And our blood in small vases you collected, Because no one else would, only you alone" N. Alterman // The voice of our brothers' blood cries out from this ground [paraphrase to Gen. 4:10]// May their souls be bounded in the bundle of life
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There were more than 3,000 Jews in the Berezne ghetto. On August 25, 1942, the Einsatzgruppe soldiers took Jews from the ghetto of Berezne out from the shtetl and killed them there [Shtetl Routes].
Shortly after the WWII, Jewish Holocaust Survivors from Berezne erected three wooden monuments with Russian and Hebrew inscriptions at the killing site [Yad Vashem].
In the 1960s, grave robbers dug up the mass graves. Later, the Soviet authority built a dendropark on the territory of the mass graves. In the 1980s, the monument was erected on the site [Shtetl Routes].
The inscription includes verses from the 1942 poem by Israeli port Natan Alterman "Of All the Peoples". The poem first appeared in print in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Novemeber 27, 1942, four days after the Jewish Agency informed the public authoritatively about the mass murder of European Jewry by Nazi Germany.
"Berezne - Commemoration of Jewish Victims,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/commemoration/14626048.
For the poem, see
"Of All the Peoples" by Nathan Alterman, https://momentmag.com/poem-of-all-the-peoples-by-nathan-alterman/ (accessed March 11, 2024)
Trochliuk, Natalia "Berezne - guidebook," Shtetl Routes (Ośrodek „Brama Grodzka – Teatr NN”), https://shtetlroutes.eu/en/berezne-putvnik/ (accessed March 15, 2024)