Village Khashchuvate: travel guide online to Khashchuvate

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General information about Khashchuvate

The village of Khashchuvate on the Pivdenny Buh River is located 10 kilometers southeast of Haivoron.

It was first mentioned in 1362 as Kachuchynka. In the 18th and 20th centuries, already as Khashchuvate, it had the status of a small town. A significant part of the population was Jews. In 1942, the German occupiers shot the entire Jewish population of the village in Khashchuvate ravine. This act of genocide went down in history as the "Khashchuvate tragedy". A memorial was opened in 2014.

What to see and where to go in Khashchuvate

Tourist attractions and museums of Khashchuvate

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"Khashchuvate Tragedy" Memorial

Monument

The "Khashchuvate Tragedy" Memorial is one of the largest memorials to the victims of the Holocaust in Europe.

Opened in 2014 in memory of 978 Jews from Khashchuvate and its surroundings, shot in 1942 in the Khashchuvate ravine.

The memorial is a smaller copy of the Wailing Wall, on which black granite slabs with a list of the dead, whose names are known to this day, are fixed.

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