Kozin - Commemoration of Jewish Victims

After the war, apparently in the late 1940s, a fenced-off monument was erected at the murder site of Kozin's Jews. It was topped with a Red Star and had an inscription in Russian, which stated: "Here are buried 1,288 Soviet civilians – victims of the German Fascist occupiers, shot to death by the Germans in 1943 [sic for 1942]." Another monument was erected in Israel by ex-Kozin Jews living in this country. The Hebrew inscription upon it reads as follows: "Memorial monument to the martyrs of the Kozin [Jewish] community and its vicinity (Volhyn, Poland). This stone will be an eternal reminder and a monument in memory of our parents, rabbis, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, who were deported, perished, and destroyed by the Nazis, may their names be blotted out. May their souls be bound up in the bond of everlasting life. The remembrance day [is on] Sivan [May] 14. [From] ex-Kozin [Jews living in Israel]."