Obj. ID: 53380
Memorials Holocaust memorial in Sosnove (Ludwipol), Ukraine, 1993, 2008
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Holocaust Victims from Ludwipol and its vicinity, who were murdered here on August 16–17, 1942
Description
The monument is located on the killing site in Sosnove. It is a black stone rectangular stele, which bears a Magen David and a Menorah inside it. Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Yiddish inscriptions are carved on the monument. There is a black stone plaque at the foot of the monument with identical Spanish and English inscriptions.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian:
На цьому місці у 1942 році
було закатовано гітлерівськими
нелюдами понад 2000 жителів
єврейської національності
с. Людвіполь (Соснова)
Вічна памʼять
невинним жертвам фашизму
Translation: At this place in. 1942, 2,000 residents of Jewish nationality of Ludwipol (Sosnova) village were tortured by Hitler's subhumans. Eternal memory to the Victims of fascism
Hebrew:
במקום זה עונו, נרצחו, הומתו ונקברו חיים
ביום ’ג’ - ’ד’ בחודש אלול (אוגוסט) תש”ב - 1942
בידי מרצחים גרמנים נאצים ועוזריהם
הנפשעים אלפיים יהודים אנשים נשים וטף
בני הקהילת לודביפול והסביבה
כבוד לזכרם הקדוש!
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Translation: At this place, two thousand Jews, men, women, and children, members of the Ludwipol Community and the vicinity, were tortured, murdered, killed, and buried alive in the hands of Nazi German murderers and their criminal assistants on 3 – 4 of Elul (August) 5702 – 1942. Honor to their holy memory! May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Yiddish:
אויף דעם ארט זענען פערפייניקט געווארן
דערשאסן אדער לעבעדיקערייד באגראבן
אין אוגוסט ’ג’ - ’ד’ אלול תש”ב 1942
דורך די היטלעריסטישע דייטשישע מערדער
צוויי טויזנט יידן-מענער פרויען און קינדער
פון שטעטל לודביפול (גרויס סלישט)
און פון די ארומיקע דערפער
אייביקע ערע זייער הייליקן אנדענק!
Translation: At this place, two thousand Jews, men, women, and children from the shtetl Ludwipol (Groys Selishch) and from the surrounding villages, were tormented, shot down, or buried alive by Hitlerist German murderers in August, 3 – 4 Elul 5702 1942. Eternal honor to their holy memory!
On the black plaque on the foot of the monument (English and Spanish):
In loving memory of my mother and brother
Szuchmacher Batia Z'L
Szuchmacher Chaim Z'L
His son and brother, Simon Szychmacher
February 27th 2008
En la querida memoria de mi madre y hermano
Szuchmacher Batia Z'L
Szuchmacher Chaim Z'L
Su hijo y hermano, Simón Szychmacher
Febrero 27, 2008
In case you want to contact / En caso de querer contactar
54-911-4143-9700 / e-mail: ecanlevsky@hotmail.com
Commissioned by
To be determined; renovated by Simón Szychmacher
sub-set tree:
Black granite (according to Zakaliuk)
The German Army occupied Ludwipol on July 6, 1941. In October 1941, a ghetto was established, where about 1,500 Jews from Ludwipol and surrounding villages were concentrated. During the liquidation of the ghetto on September 26, 1942, the Nazis murdered about 1,000 Jews. Abour 300–400 Jews managed to escape, but the Nazis cought most of them and killed. A number of fugitives hid in a forest around the village, or joined a partisan movement, and survived the war [Encyclopedia].
According to Yahad In-Unum, there were two more killing sites in Ludwipol. Six Jews were killed somewhere in a vegetable garden, and a family of a local rabbi was killed near the village clinic.
Shortly after the WWII, Holocaust Survivors from Ludwipol fenced the killing site [Yad Vashem].
The first monument on the killing site was erected in 1993. The unveiling ceremony took place on August 1, 1993. People from Israel, USA, surrounding villages, and neighboring regions took part in the event. During the meeting-requiem, the poet from Rivne, Oleksandr Bohachuk read translated poems of Malka Natanson, a Holocaust Survivor from Ludwipol [Zakaliuk].
Simon Szychmacher renovated the monument in 2008 [Yad Vashem].
There are three other monuments on the killing site within the fenced territory around the first one:
- Holocaust memorial in Sosnove (Ludwipol)
- Holocaust memorial 2 in Sosnove (Ludwipol)
- Holocaust memorial in Sosnove (Ludwipol) to the family, murdered near Hlybochok
It is unknown, who and when erected these monuments.
Another monument to the reinterred Victims of the Holocaust in Ludwipol was erected in 1997 near the killing site outside the fenced territory. According to the inscription on the headstone, the delegation of Holocaust Survivors and the descendants of the Victims reinterred here remains of the Jews, murdered in Ludwipol in 1942.
The Head of the Rivne regional state administration included "The Memorial Sign at the Place of Shooting of Citizens of Jewish Nationality" in Sosnove village on The List of Monuments of Archeology, History, and Monumental Art of the Rivne District by his order no. 514 on December 18, 2009. Apparently, it was one of the monuments, mentioned above ["Povnyi perelik..."].
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1414–1415.
"Execution of Jews in Sosnove,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://yahadmap.org/?fbclid=IwAR1pYx4Sq1tkY2WWq9QLdHjpewFo0oCHEpMlG79W_AaCjDE0DsqpzTbi4dM#village/sosnove-former-ludvipol-ludwipol-ljudwipol-rivne-ukraine.779.
"Ludwipol,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622598.
"Povnyi perelik pamiatok arkheolohii, istorii ta...," Rivnenska raionna derzhavna administratsiia, https://rrda.rv.gov.ua/storage/app/sites/30/%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%96%20%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BC%CA%BC%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8/perelik-pamyatok-rivnenskogo-rayonu.docx (accessed February 17, 2024)
Zakaliuk, K., "Vidkhodiat u dymriavu zhakhlyvi dni...," Dialoh, 32, 1993, p. 4.