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© ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Photographer: ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, 2019 , (Negative/Photo.:   A526230)

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust Victims from Demydivka, murdered here in October 1942

Description

The monument is located on the mass grave in Demydivka. It is a black stone rectangular headstone with Ukrainian and Yiddish inscriptions. A Magen David is carved above the inscriptions. The headstone sits atop a concrete base. An asphalt path and several steps lead to the monument.

Inscriptions

Ukrainian:

На цьому місці в жовтні 1942 року
німецькими загарбниками розстріляно
понад 3000 жителів селища Демидівка
єврейської національності

Translation: At this place, over 3,000 residents of Jewish ethnicity of the Demydivka Village were shot by the German occupiers in October 1942.

Yiddish:

דא איז דער בּרודער - קבר פון
3000 יידן פון שטעטל דעמידאווקע
זקנים, פרויען און קינדער דערשאָ -
סענע פארפײַניקטע, לעבעדיק
בּאגראבּענע אין 1942 דורך די
היטלעריסטישע בלוטיגע מערדער
זייער אנדענק וועט אויף אײביק
בּלײַבּן אין אונזערע הערצער
און אין די הערצר [הערצער] פון אלע
קומענדיגע דוירעס [דורות]

Translation: Here is the mass grave of 3,000 Jews from the shtetl Demidovke: elderly people, women, and children, shot down, tormented, buried alive in 1942 by the Hitler's bloody murderers. Their memory will forever remain in our hearts and the hearts of all future generations.

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Holocaust memorial in Demydivka | Unknown
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