Obj. ID: 42640
Jewish Architecture Holocaust Memorial Plaque on the Great Synagogue in Lutsk, Ukraine, 1995
To the main object: Great Synagogue in Lutsk, Ukraine
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of the Lutsk Ghetto, killed in 1942
Description
A memorial plaque is set up on the southwestern wall of the former synagogue. It represents a Jew lamenting toward the sky; a Star of David is sculptured above his head. The text in Ukrainian and Hebrew placed on a triangular background, is identical.
Inscription
Ukrainian:
Головна си-
нагога зве-
дена за при-
вілеєм коро-
ля Сигізмун-
да ІІІ старання-
ми багаточисель-
ної єврейської гр
омади міста Луць
ка на початку XVII
ст. Осередок єврей-
ської духовності,
освіти і культури на Во-
лині. Визначна пам'ят-
ка архітектури серед-
ньовіччя, а також пам’я
ть про десятки тисяч єв
реїв Луцького гетто зни-
щених фашистами в 1942 р.
Hebrew:
בית הכנסת
הגדול בלוצק
בית הכנסת הגדול אשר הוקם
לפי פריווילגיה
של המלך זיגיזמונד
השלישי והודות
לשתדלנותה של
הקהילה היהודית
הנכבדה של העיר לוצק
בתחילת המאה ה-17.
מרכז רוחני, חינוכי ותרבותי
של יהדות ווהלין. שריד
ארכיטקטוני בולט מימי
הביניים, וכן יד לזכרם של
עשרות אלפי היהודים מגטו
לוצק אשר הושמדו על-ידי
הנאצים בשנת 1942.
Translation: The Great Synagogue was built according to the privilege of King Sigismund III thanks to the efforts of the large Jewish community of Lutsk in the early seventeenth century. It was a spiritual, educational, and cultural center of Volhynian Jewry. It is an important remnant of medieval architecture, as well as a memory to tens of thousands of Jews of the Lutsk ghetto, killed by the Nazis in 1942.
Commissioned by
Jewish community of Lutsk
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The Great Synagogue of Lutsk was built in 1626-1629 and functioned until the Holocaust.
On December 11-12, 1941, the approximately 19,000 Jews of Lutsk were concentrated in a ghetto that had been set up on the territory of the old town and some parts of the poor Jewish neighborhood of Gnidawa. On August 20-23, 1942, between 15,000 and 17,000 Jews from the ghetto were shot to death at Gurka Polonka outside the city.
The plaque was created in 1995.
Kravtsov, Sergey and Vladimir Levin. Synagogues in Ukraine: Volhynia (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center and the Center for Jewish Art, 2017), 411-413, 436.
"Luck,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=815.