Obj. ID: 51585
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust monument on Khomiv Hill near Zabolotiv, Ukraine, 1967, 2023
Memorial Name
Памʼятник жертвам фашизму
Translation: Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Zabolotiv and people from the surrounding areas, who saved Jews and resisted nazi occupation
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave on Khomiv Hill near Zabolotiv in the direction of Troitsia Village. The monument consists of three parts, the first of which is a high obelisk with a beveled top and a plaque bearing a short Ukrainian inscription attached at a height of about 4 meters. The inscription does not specify any information about the events at this site, or the victims. The second part of the monument is a lower obelisk, which has two black-stone plaques attached in 2023. The smaller one bears a Magen David, and the bigger one has a Ukrainian inscription with one Hebrew word in Latin. The third part of the monument is a beveled slab, lying behind the obelisks. Several stones are gathered in a pile on a base near the monument. The monument is painted in a light-gray color in its higher parts and in a dark-gray color in its lower parts.
Inscriptions
The 1967 plaque (Ukrainian):
Жертвам
фашизму
Translation: To the victims of fascism
The 2023 plaque
Ukrainian:
На цьому місці
22.12.1941 р.
загинули
мученицькою смертю
та поховані
1200 євреїв із Заболотова
та людей із навколишніх сіл,
які допомагали євреям
та не підкорились
німецькому окупаційному
режиму.
Translation: At this place, 1,200 Jews from Zabolotiv and people from surrounding villages, who helped Jews and did not submit to German occupation regime, perished in martyrdom and buried
Hebrew (In Latin):
NIZKOR
Translation: We will remember
Ukrainian:
Вічна памʼять
Ця меморіальна дошка
була встановлена
з нагоди покаяльної молитви
та вшанування
невинних жертв голокосту.
09.07.2023 р.
Translation: Eternal memory // This memorial plaque was installed on the occasion of penitential prayer and commemoration of innocent Holocaust victims. // July 9, 2023
Commissioned by
The Soviet Authority; renovated in 2023 by Christians from Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Czech Republic, including Tetiana Leshkovych
sub-set tree:
Height of the lower stele 2,65 m
Height of the base 0,2 m
According to Liubov Solovka, there were about 2,300 Jews in Zabolotiv in 1939. In 1941, there were about 2,700 Jews, including refugees. On December 22. 1941, between 1,000 and 1,200 Jews were murdered on Khomiv Hill, about 900 were deported to Kołomyja, and about 900 were deported to the Bełżec killing center.
The Soviet Authority erected this monument on the mass grave on Khomiv Hill in 1967. Its short Ukrainian inscription did not specify the ethnicity of the victims. The Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Executive Committee included the monument to The List of Monuments of History and Monumental Art of Local Significance in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region by decision no. 612/4 on November 28, 1969 ["Ivano-Frankivska oblast"].
One of the initiators of the restoration work for the monument in 2023 was Tetiana Leshkovych, who was born in Zabolotiv. When she was a child, she often went by the monument, and this site affected her. The Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine also motivated her to initiate the restoration process.
After that, Christians from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Germany came together to collect money and restore the monument. The Head of the Zabolotiv Territorial Community Petro Maliborskyi supported the idea. Local community services cleaned up the mass grave area.
On July 9, 2023, a memorial service took place near the renovated monument. Representatives of Catholic, Greek Catholic, and Orthodox Churches from Slovakia, Czech Republic, and Lviv, Ukraine, Hans Sholts, a Protestant pastor from Germany, Moyshe Leib Kolesnyk, the Rabbi of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, and Petro Maliborskyi, the Head of the Zabolotiv Territorial Community took part in the ceremony. A joint penitential prayer was organized at the event [Pryvatne Pidpryiemstvo Teleradiokompaniia NTK].
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"U Zabolotovi vidnovyly pamiatnyi znak zhertvam Holokostu," Pryvatne Pidpryiemstvo Teleradiokompaniia NTK, https://youtu.be/dvNrEW6zJAI (accessed September 1, 2023)