Obj. ID: 44908 Holocaust Memorial at the mass grave in Kamianky, Ukraine, 1996
Memorial Name
Пам’ятний знак на місці масових розстрілів євреїв – жертв німецьких фашистів (приблизно 3000 чол.)
Translation: Memorial sign on the site of the mass shootings of Jews – victims of German fascists (approximately 3,000 people)
Who is Commemorated?
The Jewish Victims of the Holocaust who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located at the killing site in Kamianky Village. It is two stone pylons sitting on a round base. Between pylons, there is a black marble plaque with Ukrainian, Yiddish, and Hebrew inscriptions. There is a Magen David and a three-branched menorah in the middle of the plaque between inscriptions.
Inscriptions
Yiddish:
צום אנדענק פאן די
קדושים וועלכע
זענען דערמארדערט
געווארן ביי די
נאצים י"ש [=ימח שמם] אין לאגער
קאמיאנקא ז' תמוז תש"ג
ת'נ'צ'ב'ה' [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]
Translation: To the memory of the / martyrs, who / were killed / by the / Nazis, may their names be obliterated, in camp / of Kamianka Tammuz 7, 5703 [=July 10, 1943] / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Ukrainian:
Вічна памʼять
понад 5000
замордованих
у німецько-
фашистському
таборі смерті
села Камʼянки
у липні 1943 р.
Translation: Eternal memory / to more than 5,000 / murdered / in German- / fascist / death camp / of the Village of Kamianky / in July 1943
Commissioned by
3 image(s)
Base: 0.8х4х4 m,
Square: 0.005 ha
According to Tsal Kaplun Foundation, about 1,000 Jews were shot in the labor camp in the village of Kamyanka on July 10, 1943.
The monument was established in 1996. The monument was included to The List of Monuments of History of Local Significance by the Order of the Head of the Ternopil Regional State Administration no. 209 on May 26, 1997 ["Ternopilska oblast"].
"Kamianka," Shoah Atrocities Map
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1325.html.
"Ternopilska oblast. Skhema planuvannia terytorii (prodovzhennia roboty). Okhorona nerukhomykh obiektiv kulturnoi spadshchyny", vol. 3 (Kyiv: Derzhavne pidpryiemstvo "Ukrainskyi derzhavnyi naukovo-doslidnyi instytut proiektuvannia mist "Dipromisto" imeni Y.M. Bilokonia", 2017), p. 222., https://architecture.te.gov.ua/media/uploads/сп__тернопільська_область_том_iiі.pdf (accessed April 25, 2023)