Obj. ID: 47708 Memorial on the mass grave in Volodymyrets, Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims, Jewish soldiers and partisans of WWI from Volodymyrets
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave in Volodymyrets. It is a black stone horizontal slab with Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions, lying on a base with a Magen David on its front side. The monument is surrounded by metal columns with chains.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian:
Цей памʼятник був побудований
жителями Ізраїля вихідцями з
Володимирця
В цьому місці загинули
3000 євреїв
жителів Володимирця.
Вони були розстріляні
німецькими фашистами
під час ІІ світової війни в 1942 р.
Translation: This monument was erected by the residents of Israel, natives of Volodymyrets // At this place, 3,000 Jews residents of Volodymyrets perished. They were shot by the German fascists during WWII in 1942.
Hebrew
פ"נ
3000 יהודים מבני הקהילה תושבי
וולדימרץ והסביבה אשר נרצחו ע"י
הנאצים הגרמנים ועוזריהם הי"ד
ב - ט"ו אלול תש"ב 28 אוגוסט 1942
נזכור את יקירינו הורינו אחינו
ואחיותינו הקדושים והטהורים
אנו והדורות הבאים
תהילת נצח לחיילים ולפרטיזנים היהודיים -
בני וולדימרץ שנפלו במלחמה נגד האויב הנאצי
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Transcription: Here are buried 3,000 Jews, members of Volodymyrets community and surroundings, who were killed by German Nazis and their assistants, May God avenge their blood, on 15 Elul 5702, August 28, 1942. We and future generations will remember our dear. parents, brothers and sisters, holy and pure. / Eternal glory to the Jewish soldiers and partisans, residents of Volodymyrets, who fell in the war against the Nazi enemy. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Commissioned by
Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their descendants from Volodymyrets, living in Israel
18 image(s)
A ghetto in Volodymyrets was established in Spring of 1942, there were about 3,000 Jews there. On August 28, during the liquidation of the ghetto, about 2,000 Jews were shot in Smoliarna Tract [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
The first monument was erected near the road, about 200 from the killing site, in 1990 [Tsal Kaplun Foundation]. The second monument was established on the killing site.
On May 8, 2022, after the main commemoration ceremony on the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, which took place at the Monument to the Motherland, the local authority representatives laid flowers to this monument ["U Volodymyrtsi vshanuvaly..."].
On January 27, 2022, a head of a local veteran community, a head of a children's Cossack association, a leader of a local scout organization, a military chaplain, and a police representative commemorated the International Holocaust Remembrance Day near both of the monuments. ["Vshanuvaly zhertv Holokostu..."]
"U Volodymyrtsi vshanuvaly pamiat zhertv Druhoi svitovoi viiny," Volodymyrets.City, May 8, 2021, https://volodymyrets.city/articles/143460/u-volodimirci-vshanuvali-pamyat-zhertv-drugoi-svitovoi-vijni (accessed December 17, 2023)
"Volodymyrets: Smoliarna Forest,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0932.html.
"Vshanuvaly zhertv Holokostu u Volodymyrtsi hromadskist, osvita ta politsiia," Volodymyrets.City, January 27, 2022, https://volodymyrets.city/articles/191525/vshanuvali-zhertv-holokostu-u-volodimirci-gromadskist-osvita-ta-policiya (accessed December 17, 2023)