Img. ID: 476272

Memorial name 

Могила розстріляних євреїв

Translation: Grave of the shot Jews

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Holocaust Victims from Torchyn and the vicinity, buried here

Description

The monument is located on a hill in the Jewish cemetery, apparently on the mass grave, which is surrounded by a metal fence. It is a black stone rectangular upright stele, which bears Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions. A Magen David is carved at the top of the stele and a candle to the right of the Hebrew inscription; flowers are engraved at the bottom of the monument. Several steps lead to the monument. 

Inscriptions

Hebrew:

לזכרון עולם
פה נטמנו
ארבעה אלפים יהודי טורצ’ין
והסביבה
שנרצחו ע”י הנאצים ועוזריהם
הי”ד
באלול תשב
אוגוסט 1942

Translation: Eternal memory / here are buried four thousand Jews of Torchyn and the vicinity who were murdered by the Nazis and their assistants, may God avenge their blood, in Elul 5702, August 1942

Ukrainian:

Тут упокоєний прах близько 4 тисяч
євреїв мешканців Торчина та околиць
розстріляних німецько-фашистськими
окупантами та їх посібниками
в серпні 1942 року
Вічна памʼять
невинним жертвам

Translation: Here rest remains of about 4 thousand Jews, residents of Torchyn and the vicinity, shot by the German fascist occupiers and their accomplices in August 1942. Eternal memory to the innocent Victims

Commissioned by

Ruth and Hanoch Brener and other natives of Torchyn from Israel