Obj. ID: 21364
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial in Kosiv, Ukraine, 1968
Memorial Name
Памʼятний знак жертвам фашизму
Translation: Memorial Sign to the Victims of Fascism
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Kosiv and nearby villages
Description
This monument is located on the killing site near the Mass Graves on Zamkova (Miska) Hora in Kosiv not far from the Jewish cemetery. It is a large, roughhewn stone with an inscription. When the monument was erected in 1968, its inscription was engraved on the stone, and didn't mention the Jewish ethnicities of the victims. In 1994, a renovation of the Monument was carried out. A part of the initial inscription, including the words "Soviet citizens" was erased and a plaque with Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions was bolted to the stone. The plaque also bears two Magen David above the inscriptions. Both new inscriptions specify the Jewish ethnicities of the victims.
Inscriptions
Earlier inscription in Ukrainian:
Тут протягом 1941-1943 р. [=років]
німецько-фашистськими
окупантами розстріляно
близько 5-ти тисяч мир-
них радянських громадян
жителів м. [=міста] Косова та навко-
лишніх сіл. Вічна памʼять
жертвам фашизму!
Translation: Here during 1941-1943, about 5 thousand innocent Soviet citizens, residents of the city of Kosiv and nearby villages were shot to death by the German-fascist occupiers. Eternal memory to the victims of fascism!
Later inscription in Ukrainian:
Памʼяті євреїв м. [=міста] Косова...
На цьому місці 16 жовтня 1941
року почався масовий розстріл
євреїв м. [=міста] Косова та
навколишніх сіл.
Всього за роки війни
тут було знищено близько
4500 безневинних людей.
Translation: To the memory of Jews of the city of Kosiv... At this place, the mass murder of Jews of the city of Kosiv and nearby villages began on October 16, 1941. In total, for the fates of the war, about 4,500 innocent people were killed here.
A preserved part of the initial Ukrainian inscription (after the reconstruction of 1994):
жителів м. [=міста] Косова та навко-
лишніх сіл. Вічна памʼять
жертвам фашизму!
Translation: residents of the city of Kosiv and nearby villages. Eternal memory to the victims of fascism!
Later inscription in Hebrew:
לזכרם של יהודי קוסיב והסביבה
שנרצחו ונקברו כאן כ"ה תשרי
תש"ב.
בימי מלחמה נרצחו כאן כ-4500
אנשים תמים.
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: To the memory of the Jews of Kosiv and the surroundings who were executed and buried here on Tishrei 25, 5702 [=October 16, 1941]. During the war, about 4,500 innocent people were murdered here. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.
Commissioned by
Soviet Authority
1 image(s)
sub-set tree:
According to the Tsal Kaplun Foundation, Kosiv was occupied by Nazi Germany on July 1, 1941. On October 16, 1941, about 900 Jews were taken to the Zamkova (Miska) Hora and shot there. The next day, about 1,200 more Jews were killed at the site.
The Monument was erected in 1968. It was made in Lviv Ceramic and Sculpture Factory. The Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Executive Committee included the monument to the list of Monuments of History and Monumental Art of Local Importance by decision no. 612/4 on November 28, 1969 [Ivano-Frankivska oblast]. In 1994, the Monument was reconstructed. The top part of the initial inscription with the words "Soviet citizens" was erased. A plaque with Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions was bolted to the stone [Solovka].
"Ivano-Frankivska oblast. Skhema planuvannia terytorii (zavershennia). Okhorona nerukhomykh obiektiv kulturnoi spadshchyny", vol. 3 (Kyiv: Derzhavne pidpryiemstvo "Ukrainskyi derzhavnyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut proiektuvannia mist "Dipromisto" imeni Y.M. Bilokonia", 2015), p. 270., https://www.if.gov.ua/storage/app/sites/24/documentu-2022/ivano-frankivska-oblast-2015-tom-3.pdf (accessed May 3, 2023)
"Kosiv: Zamkova (Miska) Hora in Kosov,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1129.html.
Solovka, Liubov and Svitlana Oryshko, 150 iz 150 tysiach... Holokost yevreiv Prykarpattia yak skladova etnodemohrafichnoi Katastrofy Skhidnoi Halychyny, (Ivano-Frankivsk: Foliant, 2019), pp. 460-461, 545-546.