Img. ID: 131048

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust Victims from Kopychyntsi and the surrounding area

Description:

The monument is located near the site of the New Jewish Cemetery in Kopychyntsi. It is a black stone upright stele with an angled top, which sits atop a rectangular base, also of black stone. The monument bears Ukrainian, English, and Yiddish inscriptions, and engravings; a Magen David above the inscriptions and a Menorah below them. The Yiddish inscription contains Hebrew traditional formulas and has some misspellings. The involvement of local collaborators is only mentioned in the Yiddish inscription. 

Inscriptions

Ukrainian:

Вічна памʼять
Понад 3000 євреїв
мешканців міста Копичинці
і прилеглих районів
жорстоко замучених
німецько-гітлерівськими окупантами
у 1942–1943 роках

Translation: Eternal memory / More than 3,000 Jews / residents of the city of Kopychyntsi / and surrounding areas / brutally tortured / by the German-Nazi occupiers / in 1942–1943

Yiddish:

צום אייביגען אנדענק
איבער 3000 קדושים, ה' ינקום דמם
מענער פרויען אין קנדער איינוואנער
פון קאפיטשינעץ אין סביבה
דערמארדערט דורך דייטשע מערדער
מיט זייערע העלפער ימ"ש אן אר [אין יאָר] 1942-1943
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.

Translation: For the eternal memory of more than 3,000 martyrs, may God avenge their blood, men, women, and children, the residents of Kopychyntsi and the surrounding, murdered by German murderers and their helpers, may their names be obliterated, in 1942-1943. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life.

English:

In everlasting memory
of over 3000 Jewish residents of
Kopichinitz and the surrounding area
who were tortured and murdered by the
German Nazi occupiers in 1942–1943
May their blessed memory
never be forgotten

Commissioned by

[To be determined]