Obj. ID: 44977 Holocaust memorial in the Christian cemetery in Pochaiv, Ukraine, 1990s - 2000s (?)
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Community of Pochaiv
Description
The monument is located in the Christian cemetery near the mass grave in Pochaiv, which is enclosed by black metal chains and pillars. It is a stone square-shaped laying slab with a Ukrainian inscription.
Inscription (Ukrainian):
На цьому місці
буде встановлено
памʼятник
35 тисячній
єврейській громаді
м. Почаєва
яку знищили
фашисти у 1942 р.
Translation: On this place will be erected a monument to the 35 thousand Jewish community of Pochaiv city, which fascists exterminated in 1942.
Commissioned by
[To be determined]
1 image(s)
According to Yad Vashem and Tsal Kaplun Foundation, several hundreds of Jews were taken to the tank trenches behind the Polish cemetery and shot there in on August 3, 1942. Based on German reports, 794 Jews were killed there. The Soviet Extraordinary State Commission estimated the number of victims as 2,000 [Yad Vashem].
The first monument on the mass grave had the information that a monument will be erected here. The date of creation of the monument is unknown. It is also unclear, where did the information about 35,000 Victims on the monument come from. Seemingly, some years after the appearance of the first memorial slab, another monument was erected on the same mass grave, the date of its creation is also unknown.
"Execution of Jews in Pochaiv,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/pochaiv-pochayev-poczajow-ternopil-ukraine.1740.
"Kremenets: Lypovaya Street,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1311.html.
"Murder Story of Poczajow Nowy Jews on Lipovaya Street in Poczajów,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/killing-site/14627526.