Obj. ID: 53712 Memorial sign near the ghetto entrance in Sarny, Ukraine, 2008
Memorial name
Меморіальна дошка про знаходження в роки війни по цій вулиці єврейського гетто
Translation: Commemorative plaque about the location of the Jewish ghetto on this street
Who is Commemorated?
Jewish and Romani inmates of the Sarny ghetto
Description
The memorial plaque is located on the entrance to the Sarny History and Ethnography Museum. It is a rectangular black stone plaque with a Ukrainian inscription and relief images of two candles and two carnations. The inscription does not mention the ethnicities of the Victims. Under the plaque, a forged structure for flowers is attached to the wall.
Inscription (Ukrainian):
На цій вулиці в 1942 році знаходилось гетто,
вʼязні якого були розстріляні на західній
околиці м. Сарни.
Вічна їм памʼять...
Translation: On this street in 1942 was a ghetto, whose inmates were shot in the Western outskirts of the city of Sarny. Eternal memory to them...
Commissioned by
Sarny city executive committee on the initiative of the Sarny History and Ethnography Museum
| 20, Prosvity Street (Sarny History and Ethnography Museum)
The Nazis detained approximately 13,000 Jews from Sarny and surrounding villages and about 200 or 300 Roma in the Sarny ghetto. On August 27–28, 1942, approximately 11,500 ghetto inmates were murdered in a forest near Sarny [Tsal Kaplun Foundation].
The Sarny City Executive Committee erected the memorial plaque on January 9, 2008 after the decision of the Sarny City Counsil No. 475 from June 25, 2007 and on the initiative of the Sarny History and Ethnography Museum. The commemoration ceremony takes place near the mass graves every year on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and on August, 27–28. [E-mail from the Sarny History and Ethnography Museum to Marina Sedova].
In August 2023, a meeting-requiem took place near the monument. Participants commemorated the day of mass murder in Sarny with a minute of silence. They also lit memorial candles and laid flowers to the memorial plaque [Informatsiine ahentstvo "Raion in ua"].
"Sarny - Commemoration of Jewish Victims,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/commemoration/14668944.
"Sarny: Buildings of the Administrative Center,"
Shoah Atrocities Map - Ukraine (Tsal Kaplun Foundation), https://shoahatlas.org/u0929.html.
"U Sarnakh vshanuvaly pamiat rozstrilianykh v roky Druhoi svitovoi viiny meshkantsiv mista," Informatsiine ahentstvo "Raion in ua," August 28, 2023, https://history.rayon.in.ua/news/628569-u-sarnakh-vshanuvali-pamyat-rozstrilyanikh-v-roki-drugoi-svitovoi-viyni-meshkantsiv-mista (accessed April 30, 2024)