Obj. ID: 46401 Memorial fence in the Jewish cemetery in Skala Podilska, Ukraine, 1997
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Community of Skala Podilska
Description
Two black stone plaques are affixed to the memorial fence on both sides of the gate. The left plaque bears English and Ukrainian inscriptions, the right plaque have a Hebrew inscription.
Inscriptions
On the left plaque
Ukrainian:
Єврейське кладовище
Загороджене в 1997 році на
вічну памʼять про замордовану
єврейську громаду, що проживала у
Скалі-Подільській з 1570 по 1942 рік.
Translation: Jewish cemetery fenced in 1997 to the eternal memory of murdered Jewish community, which lived in Skala-Podilska between 1570 and 1942.
English:
Jewish Cemetery
Fence erected in 1997
by holocaust survivors
in the USA in memory
of the martyted Jewish
Community of Skala that
lived here since 1570.
Perished in 1942.
Michael Edelstein
Max Mermelstein-Weidenfeld
Chairman
Fanya Gottesfeld
Max Plitt
Secretary
On the right plaque
Hebrew:
הגדר מסביב לבית עלמין זה
הוּקמה בּשׁנת 1997 ע"י שׁרידי
השׁוֹאה בּארה"בּ לזכר קדוֹשׁי
קהילת סקאלה שׁהתקיימה פה
משנת 1570 הוּשׁמדה בּ-1942
משׁה אדלשׁטיין
מרמלשׁטיין-וידנפלד
יו"ר [=יושב ראש] הועד
צפורה גוטספלד
מוני פּליט
מזכיר
Translation: The fence around this Jewish cemetery installed in 1997 by the Holocaust Survivors in the United States in the holy memory of the Skala Jewish Community, which existed since 1570 and was destroyed in 1942 / Moshe Adelstein Marmelstein-Weidenfeld, chairman of the Committee / Tsipora Gottesfeld, Moni Plitt, secretary
Commissioned by
Jewish Holocaust Survivors in USA
10 image(s)
| Opposite the crossroad of Zapotichchya and Persha Vysoka Streets
There was no ghetto in Skala Podilska during the Holocaust. Jews were sent to different labor camps. In the end of March 1942, Jews from the surrounding villages were deported to Skala Podilska. On September 25, 1942, about 700 Jews were sent to the Yaniv camp in Lviv, and 30 Jews were killed in the village. On October 22, 1942, almost all Jews of Skala were deported to Borshchiv and shot there. Only several dozens of Jews remained in the village and worked in Golukhovsky villa. In autumn of 1943 German police killed Jewish workers in the villa [Hutor].
According to Tsal Kaplun Foundation, 2 Jews were killed in the Jewish cemetery on March 2, 1944.
Members of the Skala Benevolent Society, chaired by the Holocaust Survivor from Skala, Max Mermelstein, erected the memorial fence around the Jewish cemetery in Skala Podilska in 1997 [GewishGen KehilaLinks]
Hutor, Mykhailo, Yevrei Ternopilshchyny i zhakh Holokostu (Kyiv: Natsionalnyi storyko-memorialnyi zapovidnyk "Babyn Yar," 2022), p. 110., http://babynyar.gov.ua/sites/default/files/broshura_yevreyi_ternopilshchyny_i_zhah_golokostu_compressed.pdf (accessed November 13, 2023)
"In Memory of Max Mermelstein z"l," JewishGen KehilaLinks, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/skalapodol/MaxMermelstein.html (accessed December 2, 2023)
"Skala-Podolskaya: Jewish Cemetery,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u1467.html.