Img. ID: 142415
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Kolomyia and nearby villages
This monument is located in a forest in Sheparivtsi Village, where mass executions of Jews took place. Concrete pavement and two black slabs with slanted tops lead to the memorial stele, a large unfinished stone with uneven surfaces and an irregular shape. The right side of the stone has a curve and leans upward to the right. The top side of the monument is unevenly beveled. To the right of this large stone, there is a smaller one. In the upper right corner of the front side of the monument there is a square black polished plaque with a Magen David carved on it. In the middle of the front side of the monument there is a rectangular black polished stone plaque with inscriptions in Ukrainian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.
Inscriptions
In Ukrainian:
Вічна памʼять
євреям м. [=міста] Коломиї
та навколишніх місць,
загиблих від рук
нацистських катів
в 1941 - 1944 р.р. [=роках]
Translation: Eternal memory / to the Jews of the c. [=city] Kolomyia / and nearby places / perished from hands / of Nazi executioners / in 1941 - 1944 y. [=years]
In Hebrew:
לזכרון נצח
של יהודי קולומיה והסביבה
שנרצחו כאן על ידי הרוצחים
הנאציים ועוזריהם בשנים
1944 - 1941
Translation: In eternal memory of Jews of Kolomyia and surroundings who were murdered here from hands of Nazi executioners and their collaborators in the years 1941 - 1944
In Yiddish:
צום אייביקן אנדענק
די יידן פון קאלאמיי און געגענט,
וועלכע זיינען דא דערמארדעט
געווארן דורך די נאצישע רוצחים
און זייערע העלפערס אין די יארן
1944 - 1941
Translation: To the eternal memory of Jews from Kolomyia and surroundings who were murdered here by Nazi executioners and their collaborators in the years 1941 - 1944.
Commissioned by
The Soviet Authority