Memorial to Holocaust Victims

The monument to the victims of the Holocaust appeared in Donetsk on the occasion of the death of more than three thousand Jewish families during the Great Patriotic War. It was installed in the White Quarry, now Leninsky district of the city, where the tragedy occurred. “May their souls be exalted,” the monument reads. The authors of the monument were sculptor Yuri Baldin and architect Pavel Windergauz.

The events, of course, were terrible, and you can learn about this from the inscription on the monument. It tells us that innocent women and men, old people and children were thrown into the shaft. On the path leading to the monument, prints of large and small legs, barefoot and shoes were made. It is terrifying to even imagine what the victims of violent death thought. The monument was made with public donations. The collection of money and sculptural works were organized by the Ukraine-Israel Society.