Obj. ID: 47709 Holocaust memorial in Volodymyrets, Ukraine, 1990
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish Holocaust Victims from Volodymyrets and surroundings, who were murdered here
Description
The monument is located near the road, about 200 meters away from the killing site and the mass grave. There is a paved path, led to the monument. A signpost for the memorial is hanged on a nearby tree. The monument is a rectangular black stone slab. Two Magen Davids and a Soviet star are carved at the top. A branch with leaves is carved under Ukrainian and Hebrew inscriptions.
Inscriptions
Hebrew on the top:
28.8.42
הי"ד
Translation: August 28, 1942 / May God avenge their blood
Ukrainian:
Товаришу, зупинись!
Схили свою голову тут у 1942 році
німецько-фашистськими загарбниками
замордовано біля трьох тисяч
радянських громадян
Історія не забуде і не простить
цих варварських злодіянь
Translation: Comrade, stop! Bow your head here in 1942, about three thousand Soviet citizens were tormented. History will not forget and will not forgive these barbarian atrocities.
Hebrew:
במקום זה נרצחו כ-3000
יהודי ולאדימרץ והסביבה
ע"י הנאצים
ביום ט"ו אלול תש"ב
Translation: At this place, about 3,000 Jews of Volodymyrets and surroundings was killed by the Nazis on Elul 16, 5702
5 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 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..."]
"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)