Obj. ID: 53347 Holocaust memorial in Kostopil, Ukraine
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Kostopil, Osova and Berezne Jews who were murdered here
Inscriptions
Hebrew:
קבר אחים
של יהודי קוסטופול
שנרצחו ונזרקו חיים לבורות
על ידי הנאצים הפשיסטים
בשנים 1941-42
יהי זכרם ברוך
Translation: Mass grave of Kostopol Jews who were murdered and thrown alive in pits by Nazi fascists in the years 1941-42. May their memory be blessed
Ukrainian:
Тут братня могила
Костопільських євреїв
безвинно замучених, розстріляних,
живцем закопаних німецько -
фашистськими катами
в 1941 - 1942 роках.
Вічна шана їх світлій памʼяті
Translation: Here is a mass grave of Kostopil Jews innocently tormented, shot, buried alive by Nazi-fascist torturers in 1941 – 1942. Eternal honor to their blessed memory.
Hebrew:
פה נרצחו ונקברו
ביום 25/8/1942 ע"י הגרמנים הנאצים ועוזריהם
700 יהודי סטפן, אוסובה
וברזנה עובדי הכפיה
ממחנה העבודה בקוסטופול
זכרון נצח לקדושים
Translation: Here 700 Stepan, Osova and Berezna Jews, forced laborers from the labor camp in Kostopil were murdered and buried by German Nazis and their assistants on August 25, 1942
Commissioned by
to be determined
6 image(s)
Pavlo kost, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
German troops occupied Kostopil in the early July 1941. There were approximately 4,000 Jews there at that time. Shortly after the occupation, a pogrom took place in the town. The first mass shooting took place on August 16, 1941, when the Nazis killed about 400 Jews outside Kostopil. The Kostopil ghetto was established on October 5, 1941. Jews from surrounding villages were brought to the ghetto. During the second mass killing action in the fall of 1941, Security Police, SD and Ukrainian Police members shot about 1,400 Jews outside the town. During the liquidation of Kostopol ghetto on August 26, 1942, the Jews from the town were brought to the Chotenka Forest and shot there together with the Jews from Antonówka and Małe Siedliszcze. In total, about 13,000 Jews were murdered in Kostopil district during the Holocaust, about 270 Jews from Kostopil survived the war [Encyclopedia].
According to Tsal Kaplun Foundation, about 480 Jews were killed in Kostopil near the stadium on August 16, 1941.
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1387–1388.
"Kostopol,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622592.
"Kostopol: Stadium "Kolos,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0904.html.