Obj. ID: 53763
Memorials New Holocaust memorial in Sukhovolia forest near Korets, Ukraine, 1993
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews from Korets and surrounding villages, who were murdered and buried 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 in front of an arched gate with a Magen David. It is a black marble uright rectangular stele with a Magen David and Ukrainian, Hebrew and Yiddish inscriptions. A marble lying slab is attached to the stele. The stele and the lying slab sits atop a stepped base. An older monument is located to the right of the gate.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian
німецькими ??? по звірячому
були закатовані та розстріляні
??? чоловік євреїв міста Корець
та навколишніх сіл, серед яких були
їхні жінки та діти?
від родини Фані Відро громадянки Канади
Translation: At this place in 1941, ??? people, Jews of Korets city and the surrounding villages, among which were their wives and children?, were savagely tortured and shot down. From the family of Fania Vidro, citizen of Canada and other ???
Hebrew
פ.נ.
במקום זה עונו, נרצחו, הומתו, ונקברו חיים
בחדש אלול תש”א - אוגוסט 1941
בידי המרצחים הגרמנים הנאצים ועוזריהם הפושעים
550 גברים יהודים בני קהילת קוריץ והסביבה
כבוד לזכרם הקדוש
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Translation: Here is buried / At this place, 550 male Jews from the Jewish community in Korets and from the vicinity were tormented, murdered, killed, and buried alive in Elul 5701 August 1941 by the hands of German Nazi murderers and their criminal assistants. Honor to their holy memory. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
Yiddish
אויף דעם אָרט זענען פערפײניקט געוואָרן
דערשאסן אדער באגראָבן לעבעדיקערהייט
אין חודש אלול תש”א אוגוסט 1941
דורך די היטלעריסטישע דייטשישע מערדער
550 מענער יידן פון דער יידישער
קהילה אין קארעץ און פון דער געגנט
אייביקע הערע זייער הייליקן אנדענק
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Translation: At this place, 550 male Jews from the Jewish community in Korets and from the vicinity were tormented, shot down, or buried alive in Elul 5701 August 1941 by Hitlerist German murderers. Eternal honor to their holy memory! May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Commissioned by
Holocaust Survivor from Korets, Fania Vedro, and her family members
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 [Yad Vashem].
Fania Vedro participated in the unveiling ceremony of the monument in Velyki Mezhyrichi, where the relatives of her husband perished. She also visited the killing site in Sukhovolia in 1992. After that, she decided to erect the monument there [Zakaliuk].
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,