The German Army entered Bukachevtsy
on July 3, 1941. Many Jewish
residents were sent to the ghetto in nearby Rohatyn. From there many were
killed and buried in a mass grave in Rohatyn, while the majority were sent to
the Belzec death camp. There were three separate "Aktions,"
September 21, 1942 (Yom Kippur), October 26, 1942, and January 19, 1943.
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Belzec
Memorial
From March through December 1942 about 500,000 Jews, most from Galicia, were exterminated at Belzec.
The corpses were buried in mass graves and there are no records of the names
of these people.
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Memorial to those who were murdered in Rohatyn
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The Rohatyn Holocaust memorial is in the middle of a field, on
the outskirts of town. There is one marker, in Cyrillic, which commemorates the
Soviet citizens who died during World War II, with no mention of Jews. The more
recent monument, put up by Israelis, commemorates the 3500 Jews from Rohatyn and
surrounding communities who were killed by the Germans in March 1942.
Monument to those who perished in the Holocaust, Mt. Hebron
Cemetery, Flushing, N.Y.
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(Photographs taken by Linda Cantor)
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Memorial to those from Bukachevtsy who were murdered, Mt. Zion, Jerusalem
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(Photograph contributed by Rosalie Lawrence and Ruth Holler Smith)
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The inscription, translated by Beverly Shulster
Beiman, reads
In Eternal Memory:
This stone will be a monument to the memories of our blessed parents, brothers, sisters, wives and children (may God avenge their deaths) from the city of BUKASHEVITZ and the vicinity (Galicia, Eastern Poland) who were murdered and slaughtered by the Nazis and their henchmen (may their names be wiped from memory) in the
years of the Shoa, 5701-5704 [1940-1943] May their souls be bound up in the bond of life.
Bukashevitz Organization in Israel and the Diaspora
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Click
here to read a detailed report on the murder of the Jews in the
Stanislawow Region. This report, written by German Holocaust
scholar Dieter Pohl, appears on the website of the Shoah Resource Center
of Yad Vashem. (Yad Vashem Studies, Vol. 26, 1998, pp. 239- 265,
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Click here to see
Bukachevtsy residents recorded as living in Germany from 1933 to
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