101 years over the mass grave: the history of the oldest memorial complex of the Jewish community of Ukraine — video
A recent report by local television about the monument to the Proskurov pogrom prompted me to check the history of the memorial itself. Behind the 1925 obelisk lies a separate century-long biography — a mass grave, rescuers of Jews, a vanished cemetery, an almost completed demolition, Hebrew inscriptions of the 21st century, and three different official names for one object.
Author: Anton Pshedynsky
On the evening of August 27, 2026, I came across a small segment on Khmelnytsky's 33 channel titled "Bloody History of the Oldest Memorial Complex of the Jewish Community".
In the frame — a tall light obelisk, bronze human figures, the Star of David, menorahs on the fence, and a slab with an inscription in Hebrew. The segment lasts less than four minutes. But almost every minute of it raised a separate question.
Why is a monument built in 1925 adorned with works by a sculptor born in 1937? Who paid for its construction? What from the current complex has truly been preserved from 1925? How did it survive the German occupation? Why did the Soviet authorities simultaneously limit Jewish memory and place this object under state protection? Who decided to demolish it after the collapse…
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