Obj. ID: 50604 New Holocaust memorial in Pavlivka near Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2010s
Memorial Name
No official name.
Who is commemorated?
Jews of independent professions killed here on August 3–4, 1941
Description
The monument is located on the mass grave of the Jews from Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk) at the same location, as the old monument stood, in the Pavlivka Forest, adjacent to the mass graves of Polish and Ukrainian people also murdered by nazis in August 1941. It is an obelisk or a stone slab, which is narrowed to its top. A black stone slab of the same shape as the monument is embedded on its front side. The slab bears an inscription in Ukrainian. A rectangular black plaque, which seems to be the one from the Old monument, is attached to the base of the monument. It bears inscriptions in Hebrew and English.
Inscription
Embedded plaque (Ukrainian)
На цьому місці
(3-4) серпня 1941р.
нацистами були знищені
2865 осіб представників
єврейської інтелігенції.
Цього не повинно
повторитися.
Вічна памʼять загиблим.
Translation: At this place, on August (3-4), 1941, 2865 people, Jewish intelligentsia representatives, were exterminated by nazis. It should not repeat. Eternal memory to the perished.
Plaque on the base of the monument:
Hebrew
לזכרון עולם
2865 יהודים
האינטליגנציה היהודית
מסטאניסלאבוב
שנספו ב יא״ – יב״ לח״ אב
שנת תש״א
Translation: Eternal memory of 2865 Jews of Jewish intelligentsia from Stanisławów who perished on 11–12 of the Av month of the year 5701 [=August 4–5, 1941].
English
To memory about 2865
Jewish intelligentsia
from Stanislavov
which was shoot here
3-4/VIII – 1941
Creation this monument
financed ing. Alejandro Landman
from Montevideo, Urugvay
to memory about his father -
dr. Hersh /Zwi/ Landman
Commissioned by
Ukrainian politician
| Forest near the village Pavlivka
On August 1, 1941, Stanisławów (now Ivano-Frankivsk) came under Nazi occupation. On August 3, 1941, SS-Hauptsturmführer Hans Krüger ordered Jews of independent professions to come to the Gestapo headquarters. Jews were tortured there, taken out to the forest near the village Pawełcze (now Pavlivka), and killed [Solovka].
Alejandro Landman financed the installation of the first monument on the Jewish mass grave in Pavlivka in 1999–2001. He was born in Stanisławów and lived there before WWII. His father, Dr. Hersh Landman, was a lawyer, and perished during the mass murder on August 3-4, 1941 [The JewishGen KehilaLinks Project].
It is unclear what happened with the monument, but since 2016 a new obelisk has appeared at this place, and the black plaque from the first monument seems to be embedded in the new one. It can be confirmed by the photos in the newspaper of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine [Brukhal].
In the present, local and regional authority representatives and Jewish community members gather at the monument on International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27th), and the Day of mass shootings at Babyn Yar [Kyiv], (September 29th). They lay flowers and stones to the monument [V Ivano-Frankivsku vshanuvaly; Na Prykarpatti vshanuvaly]
Brukhal, Halyna, "Vshanuvaly zhertv Holokostu," Holos Ukrainy, January 29, 2016, http://www.golos.com.ua/article/263735 (accessed November 2, 2023)
Feuerman, Juliusz, “Pamiętnik ze Stanisławowa (1941-1943),” Biuletyn Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego 59 (1966): 63-91, https://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/755572/64/ (accessed April 19, 2023)
"Na Prykarpatti vshanuvaly 81-i rokovyny z chasu rozstriliv u Babynomu Yaru," Ivano-Frankivska Oblasna Derzhavna Administratsia, September 29, 2022, https://www.if.gov.ua/news/na-prykarpatti-vshanuvaly-81-i-rokovyny-z-chasu-rozstriliv-u-babynomu-iaru (accessed July 30, 2023)
Solovka, Liubov, "Henotsyd yevreiv Stanislava v roky Druhoi Svitovoi viiny," Visnyk Prykarpatskoho universytetu, IV (2008): 35-43, https://shron1.chtyvo.org.ua/Solovka_Liubov/Henotsyd_ievreiv_Stanislava_v_roky_Druhoi_svitovoi_viiny.pdf? (accessed April 21, 2023)
"Stanisławów," United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/stanislawow (accessed April 21, 2023)
"Stanisławów. Personal Photo Collection of
Alejandro Landman - Home," The JewishGen KehilaLinks Project, https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/ivano_frankivsk/photos/LandmanPhotos.html (accessed April 23, 2023)
"V Ivano-Frankivsku vshanuvaly zhertv Holokostu," Kurs, January 27, 2016, https://kurs.if.ua/news/v_ivanofrankivsku_vshanuvaly_zhertv_golokostu_33171.html/ (accessed July 30, 2023)