Img. ID: 141055

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust victims from the Rohatyn district and the surrounding areas, who were murdered and buried here

Description:

The Monument is located at the mass grave in the North of Rohatyn. It is a concrete block-form of composition monument. There are two black plaques with inscriptions in Ukrainian and English at the top of the Monument. A third plaque, with an inscription in Hebrew and a Magen David, is attached to the front side of the block. The monument is surrounded by a metal fence, and a part of its front section has the form of a Menorah worked into it.

Inscriptions

In Ukrainian:

Тут поховані тисячі
євреїв жителів міста
Рогатина та його
околиць по-звірячому
вбитих німецькими
нацистами в 1943 році.
Вічна память

Translation: Here are buried thousands of Jews, residents of the city of Rohatyn and its surroundings, brutally killed by nazis in 1943. Eternal memory

In English:

Here lie thousands
of Jews citizens
of Rohatyn and its
surrounding areas
who were brutally
killed by the
German Nazis
during the years of
1942 – 1944
God rest their souls

In Hebrew

פנ [פה נטמן]
אלפי קורבנות של יהודים תושבי רוהאטין
והסביבה שנרצחו ע"י [=על ידי] הנאצים בשנות 1942-4
הי"ד [=השם יקום דמם]

Translation: Here rest thousands of victims of Jewish residents of Rohatyn and surroundings who were killed by the hands of nazis in the years 1942-4 / May God avenge their blood

Commissioned by

Rohatyn Jewish Holocaust survivors and their descendants