Img. ID: 154108

Memorial name

Місце розстрілів громадян єврейської національності фашистськими окупантами

Translation: Site of the Killings of the Citizens of Jewish Nationality by fascist occupiers

Who is Commemorated?

Jews who were murdered here

Description

The monument is located at the killing site in Ostroh in Krasnostav Tract. There is a memorial sign with a Ukrainian inscription near the road, leading to the memorial complex. There are 4 mass graves. On one of them, a boulder is located on a base with a plaque attached to it. The plaque on the base bears Yiddish and Ukrainian inscriptions. Another plaque with a Ukrainian inscription, which does not mention the ethnicity of the Victims, is attached to the boulder. A relief sculpture of a man with a Magen David on his breast is located near the boulder. The author of the project also describes a Menorah near the boulder, but it is not visible on the available photos of the monument. The grave is marked by low metal bars. Another three mass graves are located a little further in the forest. There is a monument near them with three black stone plaques with inscriptions.

Inscriptions

On the plaque near the road (Ukrainian):

Люди добрі памʼятайте.
Любили ми життя, і краіну
нашу, і вас дорогі,
ми загинули
в чорні дні лихоліття
хай скорбота і сум
стануть мужністю і силою
вашою,
щоб змогли ви ствердити
навічно мир і спокій на
землі.

Памʼять про вас
збережеться у наших серцях.

Translation: Kind people, remember. We were loving the life, and our country, and you, dears, we perished on the black days of hard times. Let the grief and sadness become bravery and your power, so that you could establish peace and calm on the earth forever. Memory about you will be preserved in our hearts.

On the plaque attached to the stone near the first grave (Ukrainian):

Тут в роки
Великої вітчизняної війни по-
звірячому були розстрілені 
німецько-фашистськими
загарбниками
мирні
радянські громадяни
вшануйте памʼять загиблих!

Translation: Here in the years of the Great Patriotic War, peaceful Soviet citizens were brutally shot by the German fascist invaders. Honor the memory of the Victims! 

On the plaque attached to the base of the stone near the first grave (Ukrainian):

Тут 4.08.1941 р.
по звірячому стратили
7000 жінок
стариків
та дітей тільки за те,
що вони були євреями
Памʼять про
вас на віки!

Translation: Here on August 4, 1941, 7,000 women, elderly people and children were brutally executed just because they were Jews. Memory about you [will remain] forever!

On the plaque attached to the base of the stone near the first grave (Yiddish):

דא איז דעם 4
אווגוסט 1941 יאר
פארניכטיט גיווארן
7טויזנט יידעשע
פרויען זקנים און
קינדער בלויז דערפאר
וואס זיי זענען יידן דער
ל בטיקער [ליכטיקער] אנדענק פון
די קדושים וועט אין
אונזערע הערצער
בלייבן אייביק תנצכה

Translation: Here on August 4, 1941, 7 thousand Jewish women, elderly people, and children were exterminated only because they were Jews. Blessed memory of the Martyrs will remain forever in our hearts. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life

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