Obj. ID: 53349
Jewish Funerary Art Holocaust memorial on the killing site of Rivne Jews near Kostopil, Ukraine, 1985
Memorial name
Місце розстрілу радянських громадян фашистськими окупантами
Пам’ятник жертвам фашизму
Who is commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located on the killing site. It is a low stone with a tilted top. A Ukrainian inscription on the monument does not mention the ethnicity of the Victims.
Inscription
Тут в роки Великої
Вітчизняної війни
1941 – 1945
???
Translation: Here, during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Soviet civilians were shot by the German-Fascist occupiers
Commissioned by
To be determined
sub-set tree:
During the Rivne ghetto liquidation on July 13–14, 1942, approximately 5,200 Jews were brought from Rivne to the forest near Kostopil and killed there [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
The first monument was erected in 1985 [Tsal Kaplun Foundation]. Its Ukrainian inscription did not mention the ethnicity of the Victims. The Executive Committee of the Rivne Region Council of Members of Parliament included the monument on the List of Monuments of Archeology, History, and Monumental Art of Local Significance by the order of 91-p on March 3, 1986 [Rivnenska raionna derzhavna administratsiia].
The second monument with a Magen David and Yiddish, Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions was erected in 1994.
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"Rovno: Kostopil Forest,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0902.html.
"Vynyshchennia yevreiv na Kostopilshchini pid chas Druhoi Svitovoi viiny," Molod debatuie, November 16, 2021, https://ukraineyouthdebates.de/2021/11/vynyshhennya-yevreyiv-na-kostopilshhini-pid-chas-drugoyi-svitovoyi-vijny/ (accessed March 8, 2024)
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