On December 10, 2019, a monument was unveiled in Makhnivka village, Koziatyn district, Vinnytsia region, where during World War II the Nazis killed several hundred local Jewish residents. After more than 77 years, perhaps for the first time, the anthem of Ukraine and chants in Aramaic and Hebrew were sounded in the place where Ukrainian Jews died innocently.

“Here the sons of Israel, residents of Makhnivka, who died a martyr at the Nazis’ hands in 1942, were buried. May the souls of the dead will be knotted into the knot of life.

The monument was erected with the assistance of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, as well as Yisroel Meir Gabbai and the Ohalei Tzadikim – Geder Avos Association.

It was installed in the month 5780 (2019) of Heshvan”, - was written on black stone, which now stands on the place of the terrible crime that occurred then, in 1942.

Arie Goldberg, employee of the Department of Nationalities and Religions of the Vinnytsia Regional Council, representative of district administration, Village Chairman, Director of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, Shaul Horowitz, Chief Rabbi of the Vinnytsia region, Shlomo Wilhelm, Chief Rabbi of Zhytomyr and western Ukraine, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Gabbai, head of the Ohalei Tzadikim organization, Rabbi Abraham Abo Turetsky, Leonid Trakhtenberg, head of the Holocaust History Museum in Vinnytsia, Faina Vynokurova, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Honored Culture Worker of Ukraine, deputy director of the State Archives of Vinnytsia Region, an old friend and partner of our Museum “Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine”, participated in a mourning rally dedicated to the opening of this monument to the Holocaust victims.

The video of the opening ceremony of the monument is available here.