Krymno - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

In 1979-1980, during the legal proceedings conducted by the KGB against the former Ukrainian auxiliary policemen from Zabłocie region - Nikolai Dufanets, Artyom Bubela, and Philipp Rybachuk a mass grave of Jews from Krymno and the surrounding area was identified. After its opening, an exhumation was carried out, followed by a memorial ceremony. In 1980, after the reburial of about 400 victims (including 160 children), a commemorative sign in a shape of a concrete slab was erected at the site. The Ukrainian inscription on the polished granite plaque, topped with a Red Star, reads as follows: "Here lie [buried] 400 civilians who were brutally shot to death by the German Fascists and their accomplices – [Ukrainian auxiliary] policemen - on September 6, 1942". During the same legal proceedings a mass grave of 100 Jews from Krymno and Zabłocie, who were murdered near the village of Tur, was opened. In 1980, after an exhumation and reburial, a monument was erected at the site. Its current inscription in Ukrainian states: "Here are buried 101 Jewish civilians who were shot to death on January 9, 1943 by [German] Fascists and Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists."