Obj. ID: 47268
Memorials Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Busk, Ukraine, 2004
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Busk, Ukraine
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Bust and the vicinity
Description
The monument is located at the mass grave in the Jewish cemetery in Busk. It is a rectangular gravestone which set atop the base. The gravestone features Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions, a Ukrainian coat of arms, and a Magen David. The Ukrainian inscription mentions one of the donors, while another donor is referenced in the Ukrainian inscription carved on the base of the monument.
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
לזכר
הקהילות הקדושות
שהושמדו על ידי הנאצים
בבוסק וסביבתה
בין השנים 1941-1944
Translation: In memory of the holy communities that were destroyed by the Nazis in Busk and its vicinity between 1941 and 1944
Ukrainian:
Встановлено в 2004 році коштом
ЕА "Сохнут"
В памʼять святої громади євреїв
Буська та району
по-звірячому знищених
нацистами в 1941-44 рр.
Встановлено коштом
міжнародного центру
Холокост
ім. д-ра Ол. Шварца
Translation: Erected in 2004 at the expense of Jewish Agency "Sokhnut" in memory of the holy community of Jews of Busk and the district, brutally exterminated by the Nazis in 1941 – 1944. Erected at the expense of the International Center of the Holocaust named after dr Ol. Shvarts.
Commissioned by
Funded by the Jewish Agency "Sokhnut" and the International Center of the Holocaust named after dr Ol. Shvarts
sub-set tree: 
In May 1943, the Nazis murdered approximately 1,200 Jews in the Jewish cemetery in Busk [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
The monument in the cemetery was erected in 2004. After that, Yahad-In Unum investigated the territory and discovered 14 mass graves between the Jewish cemetery and the river. They also exhumed the graves [Yahad-In Unum].
"Bus'k: Local Jewish Cemetery,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u2343.html.
"Execution of Jews in Busk,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/en/#village/busk-busik-bisik-lviv-ukraine.35.
"Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Busk,"
Gedenkstättenportal zu Orten der Erinnerung in Europa (The Information Portal to European Sites of Remembrance), https://www.memorialmuseums.org/memorialmuseum/memorial-to-the-murdered-jews-of-busk.