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© ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Photographer: ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, 2019 , (Negative/Photo.:   A527120)

Memorial Name

Пам’ятний знак на місці розстрілу єврейського населення

Translation: Memorial Sign on the site of shooting of Jewish population

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust Victims from Oleksandriia and the surrounding area, who were murdered here on September 22, 1942

Description:

The monument is located on the killing site in the Jewish cemetery. It is a black stone upright rectangular slab. The monument bears Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions, which are very similar to the inscriptions on the monument on a territory of a sanatorium. There is a Magen David above the inscriptions.

Inscriptions

Ukrainian:

На цьому місці
22 вересня 1941 р.
були знищені
німецько
фашистськими
загарбниками
близько 100 євреїв
села Олександрія і
навколишніх сіл
Вічна памʼять
невинним жертвам
геноциду.

Translation: At this place, about 100 Jews of the village Oleksandriia and surrounding villages were exterminated by the fascist occupiers on September 22, 1942 / Eternal memory to the innocent Victims of genocide

Hebrew:

פ”נ
מעל 100יהודים
והסביבה
תושבי אלכסנדריה
והקברו חיים
שנרצחו באכזריות
הי”ד
הנאצי ועוזריו
על-ירי [=על-ידי] הצורר
1941-1943
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה [=תהי נשמתם צרורה בצרור החיים]

Translation: Here are buried over 100 Jews of the village Aleksandria and the vicinity, who were brutally murdered and buried alive / May God avenge their blood / by the Nazi oppressor and his assistants / 1941–1943 / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life

The Hebrew text has incorrect word order. Translating the inscription into English, we attempted to reconstruct the initial intentions of the authors. 

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Holocaust memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Oleksandriia | Unknown
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2000s
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Ukraine | Rivnenska obl. | Oleksandriia (Олександрія, Rivnenska obl.)
| Shevchenka street (around 200 metres South from UkrPoshta)
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