Obj. ID: 53462 Holocaust memorial in Radyvyliv, Ukraine, 2004
Memorial name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of Radyvyliv, murdered and buried here
Description
The monument is a white wall with a Magen David and Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions. It is located at the killing site in Porokhovnia Khutir near Radyvyliv.
Inscriptions
Ukrainian:
На цьому місці захоронено близько 4 тисяч євреїв жителів Радивилова вбитих у 1942 р. нацистами та їх поплічниками у Дру[гій світовій війні...?]
Hebrew:
יזכור
??? ונקברו כ-4000 יהודי רדז’יוילוב בשנת 1942 במלחמת העולם השנים ע”י הרוצחים הנאצים ועוזריהם ???
ת.נ.צ.ב.ה
Commissioned by
Natives of Radyvyliv from abroad on the initiative of one of them, Avraham Korin
1 image(s)
Zastavki, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
The Nazis killed about 1,350 Jews at the Khutir Porokhovnia on May 29, 1942, and 950 more Jews on October 6 of that year [Yahad In-Unum].
The first monument at the killing site was unveiled in May 1990. Local politicians, schoolchildren, and elderly people took part in the ceremony [Yashchuk].
The second monument was erected in 2004 on the initiative of the relatives of the Victims [Radyvylivskyi istorychnyi muzei]. The Radyvyliv City Council dates the monument to 2005 [Radyvylivska miska rada, 2022 and 2024].
Radyvyliv City Council commemorates International Holocaust Remembrance Day near the second monument. City authority representatives and local Jewish community members lay flowers to the monument [Radyvylivska miska rada, 2022 and 2024].
"Botanichna pamiatka pryrody mistsevoho znachennia "Urochyshche Porokhovnia," Radyvylivskyi istorychnyi muzei, May 4, 2017, https://radivil-museum.do.am/publ/botanichna_pam_jatka_prirodi_miscevogo_znachennja_urochishhe_porokhovnja/1-1-0-31 (accessed March 30, 2024)
"Execution of Jews in Radyvyliv,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/radyvyliv-radzivilov-radziwillow-rivne-ukraine.718.
"Radziwillow,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622347.
"U hromadi vshanuvaly pamiat zhertv Holokostu," Radyvylivska miska rada, January 26. 2024, https://radyvylivrada.gov.ua/news/1706276116/ (accessed March 30, 2024)
"U terytorialnii hromadi vshanuvaly pamiat zhertv Holokostu," Radyvylivska miska rada, January 27, 2022, https://radyvylivrada.gov.ua/news/1643286425/ (accessed March 30, 2024)
Yashchuk, Volodymyr, "Pro shcho shumyt lis bilia Porokhovni, Prapor Peremohy, May 18, 1990, p. 2.
Panoramic photo of the monument:
https://radivil-museum.do.am/Turizm/MemorialPorohovnia.jpg