Obj. ID: 40079 Holocaust Memorial in the New Jewish Cemetery in Horodenka, Ukraine, late 1990s
Memorial Name
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Horodenka and nearby villages
Description
This memorial is located in the New Jewish cemetery in Horodenka. The upright stele is rounded on top, creating the image of a headstone. At the top of this headstone, there is a Magen David in a circle. Inscriptions in Hebrew and Ukrainian are written with white letters on two separate black plaques, which seem to have been bolted to the headstone sometime after the monument was erected. The plaque with Hebrew inscription bears a blue Magen David at its top. The Hebrew inscription is dedicated to all victims of the Holocaust from Horodenka and neighboring villages, including those who were murdered in Actions, labor and concentration camps, whereas the Ukrainian inscription commemorated only the Jews of Horodenka, who perished during the second Action in Horodenka. The Hebrew inscription also mentions that victims were killed by Nazis and collaborators, while the Ukrainian dedication does not specify this.
Inscriptions
In Hebrew
לזכר כל קדושי הורודנקה והסביבה -
קרבנות השואה, שנרצחו מידי הנאצים
ומשתפי פעולה באקציות, במחנות עבודה,
במחנות השמדה ובכל צורה אחרת
בתקופת מלחמת העולם השנייה 1941 - 1945
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה. [תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: To the memory of all martyrs of Horodenka and surroundings - / victims of the Holocaust, which were murdered by the hands of Nazis / and collaborators in Actions, labor camps, / concentration camps and all other ways / in the period of the second world war 1941 - 1945 // May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
In Ukrainian:
Памʼяті городенківських евреїв
що загинули в другій акції 13.04.1942 р.
Вічна памʼять святим невинним
жертвам нацизму.
Translation: To the memory of Horodenka Jews / that perished in the second Action 13.04.1942 y. // Eternal memory to the holy innocent / victims of nazism.
Commissioned by
Jewish Survivors from Israel
4 image(s)
| Near the Monkutske cemetery on Monasteryska Street
In 1939, there were 3,750 Jews in Horodenka. Hungarian troops entered Horodenka in July of 1941, and German troops came in August of that year. Along with the local Jewish community, about 1,000 Hungarian Jews were also held in Horodenka [Solovka, p. 181].
On December 4, 1941, the Gestapo of Kolomea gathered about 2,600 Jews in the synagogue, brought them the next day to the forest near Siemakowce, and shot them there. On April 13, 1942, about 60 or 75 Jews were shot in Horodenka, and were buried in the cemetery. In 1942, the Jews from surrounding villages and Obertyn were brought to the Horodenka ghetto. Most of them were deported to Kolomea and the Bełżec killing center. About 80 Jews were sent to the Janowska Street labor camp in Lwów. Very few Jews from Horodenka survived the Holocaust [Solovka, p. 181, Encyclopedia, p. 780].
The first monument in Horodenka was erected by the Soviet Authority on the mass grave near the Semakivtsi Village [Solovka, p. 462]. The monument had a short inscription in Ukrainian, which did not specify information about the events that took place there or the ethnicity of the victims. In the 1990s, a plaque with information in four languages was bolted to the monument.
A Holocaust memorial plaque was also installed on the Great Synagogue in Horodenka in 1993 [Solovka, p. 462]. The memorial plaque is included in The List of Monuments of History and Monumental Art of Local Significance in the Ivano-Frankivsk Region.
Jewish Survivors from Israel installed the monument in the late 1990s at the mass grave in the New Jewish cemetery in Horodenka, where the victims of the Action on April 13, 1942 were buried ["Horodenka...", Solovka, p. 462]. The monument has a Magen David and bolted plaques with information in Hebrew and Ukrainian.
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 780-781.
"HORODENKA: Ivano-Frankivska oblast [Gorodënka ]," International Jewish Cemetery Project, International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies, http://iajgscemetery.org/eastern-europe/ukraine/horodenka-ivano-frankivska-oblast (accessed April 27, 2023)
Solovka, Liubov and Svitlana Oryshko, 150 iz 150 tysiach... Holokost yevreiv Prykarpattia yak skladova etnodemohrafichnoi Katastrofy Skhidnoi Halychyny, (Ivano-Frankivsk: Foliant, 2019), pp. 181, 462-463.