Obj. ID: 53379 Holocaust memorial on the killing site of Rivne Jews near Kostopil, Ukraine, 1994
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews from Rivne who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located in a forest near Kostopil on the killing site. It is an upright stele of irregular shape with rough sides. A Magen David and Yiddish, Hebrew, and Ukrainian inscriptions are carved on the front side of the monument.
Inscriptions
Yiddish:
דא ליגן 5000 יידן
קרבנות פון פאשיסטישן גע?אליך
ארויסגעפירט פון ראוונער געטא
דורך די היטלעריסטישן מערדער
און דערשאסן אין יולי 1942
דער ליכטיגער אנדענק פון די
קדושים וועט אויף אייביק בלייבן
אין אונזערע הערצער
Translation: Here lie 5,000 Jews, the Victims of the fascist ??? brought from Rovno ghetto by the Hitlerist murderers and shot in July 1942. The blessed memory of the Victims will forever remain in our hearts.
Hebrew:
פה שוכבים 5000 יהודי רובנה
התושבים האחרונים של הגטו
ברובנה ונשמדו על ידי הרוצחים
ההיטלריסטים ביולי 1942
זכרון של הקדושים נשמור
לעולם בליבנו
Translation:
Here lie 5000 Jews of Rovna, the last dwellers of the ghetto in Rovna, exterminated by Hitlerite murderers in July 1942. We will preserve the memory of the martyrs in our hearts forever.
Ukrainian:
Тут покоїться прах 5000 євреїв
останніх мешканців Рівненського гетто
закатованих гітлерівськими злочинцями
у липні 1942 року.
Вічна ??? та світла памʼять загиблим
Translation: Here rest remains of 5,000 Jews, the last residents of the Rivne ghetto, tortures by the Hitler perpetrators in July 1942. Eternal ??? and blessed memory to the perished.
Commissioned by
To be determined
During the Rivne ghetto liquidation on July 13–14, 1942, approximately 5,200 Jews were brought from Rivne to the forest near Kostopil and killed there [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
The first monument was erected here in 1985. Its Ukrainian inscription did not mention the ethnicity of the Victims.
The second monument with a Magen David and Yiddish, Hebrew and Ukrainian inscriptions was unveiled in the early July 1994. The district authority, Jews of Kostopil and their descendants from Israel, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine took part in the meeting-requiem. One of the Survivors, Hanna Nusenblat, brought soil from Israel to the monument. A Deputy of the Main Rabbi of Ukraine and Archpriest of Kostopil district took part in the event. Participants lit memorial candles, listened to the Israel and Ukrainian anthems [Zakaliuk].
Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933-1945, ed. Martin Dean, vol. 2 (Bloomington: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2012), pp. 1387–1388.
"Rovno: Kostopil Forest,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0902.html.
"Vynyshchennia yevreiv na Kostopilshchini pid chas Druhoi Svitovoi viiny," Molod debatuie, November 16, 2021, https://ukraineyouthdebates.de/2021/11/vynyshhennya-yevreyiv-na-kostopilshhini-pid-chas-drugoyi-svitovoyi-vijny/ (accessed March 8, 2024)
Zakaliuk, K. "Vklonimosia mohylam," Visti Rivnenshchyny, July 5, 1994, p. 3.