Obj. ID: 52462
Memorials Holocaust Memorial at the killing site near Skalat, Ukraine, 1993
Memorial Name
Братська могила євреїв – жертв німецьких фашистів (приблизно 550 чол.)
Translation: Mass Grave of the Jews – Victims of the German Fascists (Approximately 550 People)
Who is Commemorated?
The Jewish Holocaust Victims from Skalat murdered here
Description
The monument is located in Novosilka Village, on the killing site, which is surrounded by a stone fence with a metal gate decorated by a Magen David. The monument itself is a boulder with a black granite rectangular slab, attached to a boulder in front of the gate. The slab bears Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions and a Magen David above them. A concrete pavement leads from the gate to the monument. The monument is surrounded by several Jewish tombstones, which probably were collected around the Skalat and installed here.
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
עם ישראל חי!
לְזֵכֶר
אלפי יהודי סקאלאט
והסביבה, שנרצחו
על ידי הגרמנים
1944–1941
ת. נ. צ. בּ. ה. [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: The nation of Israel lives! To the memory of thousands of Jews of Skalat and surroundings, who were murdered by the Germans in 1941–1944. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
Ukrainian:
На памʼять
євреям Скалату і району, загинувшим
від рук німецьких загарбників
1941–1944 рр.
Translation: To the memory of the Jews of Skalat and the district, perished from the hands of German occupiers in 1941–1944
Commissioned by
Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their families
sub-set tree:
Square - 0.19 ha
According to the Tsal Kaplun Foundation, there was a labor camp in Novosilka Village. Jews were sent there from Skalat to work in a quarry. On July 28, 1943, about 100 Jews were killed in the village.
The monument was erected in 1993. It was included on The List of Monuments of History of Local Significance by Order no. 209 of the Head of the Ternopil Region State Administration on May 26, 1997 ["Ternopilska oblast..."].
According to the information board near the monument, the memorial site was included in a tourist route around Skalat, created with the financial support of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
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The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/skalat-ternopil-ukraine.269.
"Ternopil: Novosilky,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1332.html.
"Ternopilska oblast. Skhema planuvannia terytorii (prodovzhennia roboty). Okhorona nerukhomykh obiektiv kulturnoi spadshchyny", vol. 3 (Kyiv: Derzhavne pidpryiemstvo "Ukrainskyi derzhavnyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut proiektuvannia mist "Dipromisto" imeni Y.M. Bilokonia", 2017), p. 227., https://architecture.te.gov.ua/media/uploads/сп__тернопільська_область_том_iiі.pdf (accessed April 25, 2023)
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