Obj. ID: 47705 Memorial 2 on the mass grave in Vysotsk, Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Vysotsk, who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in Borok Tract on the south of the Vysotsk village. It is an upright stele and a lying stele, made of black stone. The upright stele bears a Magen David, a Ukrainian inscription, and two carnations. The lying stele also bears a Ukrainian inscription. The inscriptions do not mention the ethnicity of the Victims. A pavement leads to the monument.
Inscriptions
in Ukrainian
On the upright stele:
Свята помста
радянського солдата
що трапила катів
Translation: A Soviet soldier's sacred revenge, which overtook torturers
On the lying stele:
Тут лежать 1864 радянських
громадян закатованих
фашистськими недолюдками
9 вересня 1942 року
Translation: Here lie 1864 Soviet citizens tortured by fascist submen on September 9, 1942
Commissioned by
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A ghetto in Vysotsk was established in the late July 1942. There were about 1,500 Jews. During the liquidation of the ghetto, on September 9, 1942, between 1,600 and 1,800 were shot [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
"Execution of Jews in Vysotsk,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/#village/vysotsk-wysock-wysotsk-rivne-ukraine.343.
"Vysotsk: Mass Grave "Borok,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0927.html.
"Wysock,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14714092.