Greg took Lisa and me to a recently forgotten memorial of a mass grave where 17, 500 Jews were murdered by the Nazi killing machine. The victims were women, children, and elderly Jews made to march from their homes in Rivne to this hill where they were made to undress and march to the top of the hill. They were machine gunned into a ditch, buried, and forgotten until the fall of communism when this monument was erected. Anti-semitism has once again, over the last 18 years, caused this site to be purposely ignored. Weeds have overgrown much of the area, and vehicle access has been cut off due to the fact that grave robbers have been digging tunnels in attempts to retrieve gold caps from the remains of the people buried there.
This marker identifies the entrance to the memorial.
The gate.
These concrete slabs are imprinted with footprints symbolizing the death march.
This headstone surrounded by many small headstones cries out, "...never forget our brothers and sisters who are buried here!" The smaller headstones are engraved with the names of every one of the people murdered and buried here.
A marker on one of the actual trenches. The massacre was accomplished in less than 2 days.
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