Obj. ID: 52674
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial on the killing site in Oleksandriia, Ukraine, 2000s
Memorial Name
Пам’ятний знак на місці розстрілу єврейського населення
Translation: Memorial Sign on the site of shooting of Jewish population
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Oleksandriia and the surrounding area, who were murdered here on September 22, 1942
Description:
The monument is located on the killing site. It is a black stone upright slab with a tilted top. The monument bears Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions, which are very similar to the inscriptions on the monument in the Jewish cemetery. There is a Magen David above the Hebrew inscription.
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
פ”נ
מעל 1000 יהודים
תושבי אלכסנדריה והסביבה
שנרצחו באכזריות ונקברו חיים
הי”ד [=השם יקום דמם]
על-ידי הצורר הנאצי ועוזריו
יב’ בתשרי תש”ג, ספטמבר 1942
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: Here are buried over 1,000 Jews, residents of Aleksandria and the vicinity, who were brutally murdered and buried alive, may God avenge their blood, by the Nazi oppressor and his assistants 12 Tishrei 5703 [=23 September 1942], September 1942 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Ukrainian:
На цьому місці
22 вересня 1942 року
були знищені німецько–
фашистськими загарбниками
близько 1000 євреїв
села Олександрія і
навколишніх сіл
Вічна памʼять
невинним жертвам
геноциду
Translation: At this place, about 1,000 Jews of the village Oleksandriia and surrounding villages were exterminated by the fascist occupiers on September 22, 1942 / Eternal memory to the innocent Victims of genocide
Commissioned by
[To be determined]
Serhiy LS, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
1 image(s)
sub-set tree:
| on the territory of a sanatorium
A ghetto in Oleksandriia was established in August 1942. On September 23–24, 1942, it was liquidated. During the liquidation of the ghetto, 903 Jews were shot in Sviatskyi Forest [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
According to Untold Stories, the monument on the killing site was established in 2006, but apparently, it was erected before 2002, as the Head of the Rivne Regional State Administration included the memorial sign on The List of Monuments of History and Monumental Art of Local Significance of Rivne District by the order no. 292 on May 27, 2002 [Rivnenska raionna derzhavna administratsiia].
"Aleksandria: Svattya Forest,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0910.html.
"Aleksandrja,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622499.
"Execution of Jews in Oleksandriya,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/oleksandriya-rivne-ukraine.1.
"Fail:Pamiatnyi znak na mistsi rozstrilu yevreiskoho naselennia, s. Oleksandriia,"
Wikipedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Пам’ятний_знак_на_місці_розстрілу_єврейського_населення,_с._Олександрія,_на_території_санаторію_1.jpg.
"Povnyi perelik pamiatok arkheolohii, istorii ta...," Rivnenska raionna derzhavna administratsiia, https://rrda.rv.gov.ua/storage/app/sites/30/%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%BD%D1%96%20%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BC%CA%BC%D1%8F%D1%82%D0%BA%D0%B8/perelik-pamyatok-rivnenskogo-rayonu.docx (accessed February 17, 2024)