Poltava region

Khorol district, Nebesna Sotnya street (near the Khorol agro-industrial complex and the Khorol Botanical Garden)

Historical monument of local significance

1991 р.

Soviet period (1922-1991)

real person(s)

male

persons of war

mixed materials

multi-figure composition

figurative art

Main text, additional text (if available) :

Yes

Ukrainian

Honoring the culture of war victims, including memorialization

exists

Khorol City Council

The decision of the Third Reich terror apparatus to establish concentration camps on the territory of Chorol was made in March 1941. A few days before the occupation of the city, Nazi reconnaissance planes took photographs of the area. From a height, they spotted a large pit 132 m long, 90 m wide, and 7 m deep, from which clay was extracted for baking bricks at a nearby factory. They determined this place to be ideal for the construction of the camp, which was originally planned as a transit or forwarding camp. Two wagons with barbed wire were delivered to the Khorol railway station to fence the concentration camp. No one thought or guessed what purpose this building material would have. On 13 September 1941, the town and the district were occupied by the Nazis, and a week later, Dulag 160 was built. According to documents and eyewitness accounts, the bloody trail to the Khorol Pit stretched from Zolotonosha, Orzhytsia, Pyriatyn, Lubny, Chornukh, Sencha, Lokhvytsia, Myrhorod, and other settlements. Initially, the Nazis placed here Red Army soldiers who had been captured after being surrounded in the so-called Kyiv Cauldron in the Lubny-Lokhvytsia area, and later the Jewish population. The monument of history