Img. ID: 140375

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish victims of the Holocaust from Sołotwina

Description

The monument is located in the vicinity of the fire department in Solotvyn. It is a metal Menorah which sits atop a granite pedestal. Branches of the Menorah are decorated with metal drops. A metal base of the Menorah bears the names of the Twelve tribes of Israel, written in Hebrew, the names in an upper row are written upside down. Two metal plaques with Ukrainian inscriptions are attached to the pedestal. One of them is decorated with barbed wire under the text. The second one is located on the back side of the monument and has information about donors and a sculptor.

Inscriptions

On the front side (Ukrainian)

Хто не памʼятає
минулого, той
не має майбутнього.
Ця менора-памʼять
про майже дві
тисячі солотвин-
ських євреїв,
знищених фашис-
тами в роки
другої світової
війни.

Translation: [Those,] who do not remember / the past, has no future. / This Menorah-memory / about almost two / thousand of Solotvyn / Jews, / exterminated by Fascists / in the years / of the Second World / War.

On the backside (Ukrainian):

Памʼятник
споруджено
на кошти
сімʼї Тайк
Скульптор В.Вільшук

Translation: Monument / is erected / at the expense / of the Taik Family / Sculptor V. Vilshuk

On the metal base in Hebrew:

יוסף, ראובן, יהודה ,שמעון, יששכר
אשר, גד, מנשה, נפתלי, בנימין

Commissioned by

The Taik Family