Obj. ID: 51147  Holocaust Memorial on the mass grave near the oil station of Zbarazh, Ukraine, 1946

We are grateful to Tetiana Fedoriv, who provided us with the images and information of the memorial.

There were about 5,000 Jews in Zbaraż during WWII. This number also includes refugees from western Poland. Germany occupied Zbaraż on July 4, 1941. 

In September 1941, police took over 70 Jews to the Lubianka Forest and shot them there. 

Four deportation actions to the Bełżec killing center took place in Zbaraż in the second half of 1942. On August 31, 1942, about 500 Jews were deported to Tarnopol and later to Bełżec. On September 30, 1942, about 260 Jews were deported in the same way. On October 21-22, 1942, 960 Jews were deported to Bełżec, a group of Jews were taken to the Janowska Street camp in Lwów, and about 130 Jews were murdered in Zbaraż. On October 25, 1942, a ghetto was established in the city. On November 8-9, 1942, about 1,000 Jews were deported to Bełżec.

On April 7, 1943, about 1,000 Jews were murdered near the oil depot at the Zbaraż railway station. 

On June 9, 1943, the Zbaraż ghetto was liquidated, and several hundred Jews were murdered in the city. 

On June 19, 1943, about 150 Jews who managed to escape were murdered in a forest 7 km away from the city. 

Only 60 Jews in Zbaraż survived WWII. 

In 1946, a memorial on the mass grave near the oil depot in Zbarazh was erected ["Yevreistvo Zbarazha"]. Another memorial on the mass grave near today's 22 Sichnia Street was installed around the same time. Local activists together with Tetiana Fedoriv, a researcher, occasionally clean up the monument site. Other mass graves around Zbarazh remain unmarked [according to a private conversation of Marina Sedova with Tetiana Fedoriv in Facebook social networking website].