Obj. ID: 53758
Memorials Old Holocaust memorial in Sukhovolia forest near Korets, Ukraine
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
350 Jewish men from Korets who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located at the killing site in a forest near Sukhovolia. A metal fence decorated by Menorot and stars of David surrounds the territory of the monument, which is situated to the right of the new monument and an arched gate with stars of David. It is a black marble uright rectangular stele with Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions. A Magen David is carved above the inscriptions; below them, there is an image of a Menorah. A plaque with a Hebrew inscription is attached to the foot of the monument. A new monument is located in the center of the fenced area in front of the gate.
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
לזכר נשמת קבר אחי(מ) [=אחים]
350 נ(ף)ש [=נפש] היהודי(מ) [=היהודים] מעיר קארעצ
שנהרגו בּחדש אלול בּשנה תש’א
Translation: In memory of souls mass grave / 350 Jewish souls from the city of Korets / that were murdered in the month of Elul in the year 5701 [The Hebrew inscription is written without the end letters and formulated akwardly]
Ukrainian:
Тут поховані жертви
гітлерівського геноциду
350 чоловіків євреїв
з міста Корець
варварськи розстріляні
в 1941 році 20.8
Світла памʼять про них
навічно збережеться в наших
серцях
Translation: Here buried the Victims of Hitler genocide, 350 Jewish men from Korets city, barbarously shot in 1941, 20.8 / Blessed memory about them will forever remain in our hearts
Commissioned by
To be determined
sub-set tree:
The Nazis murdered 350 Jews from Korets and unknown number of Jews from Novohrad Volynskyi (Zviahel) in the forest near Sukhovolia [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
It is unclear, who and when erected the first monument on the killing site. The Holocaust Survivor from Canada, Fania Vedro initiated the installation of the second monument, because her father perished here. With funds of her family, the territory was fenced, and the monument was erected [Yad Vashem].
The unveiling ceremony of the second monument took place on July 14, 1993. The district authority representatives and Vedro family took part in the event. Participants listened to the national anthems of Israel and Ukraine, recited prayers, hanged Ukrainian and Israeli flags, lit candles and laid flowers to the monument [Zakaliuk].
"Korzec,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622533-Korzec.
"Novograd-Volynskyi: Forest near Village," "Korets: Forest near the Village Sukhovolya,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0549.html,, https://shoahatlas.org/u0957.html.
Zakaliuk, K., "Ya chuiu, yak z kozhnoi yamy vy ozyvaietes do mene...," Dialoh, no. 30, July, 1993,, pp. 1, 8.