Grave of the Victims of the Jewish Pogrom of 3 September 1919 in the Village of Budaivka and Surroundings

At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century a Jewish community lived in the village of Budaivka (now the town of Boyarka). It numbered about 300 people.
During the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917–1921 Boyarka station was the key to Kyiv, and all the military and revolutionary events around the capital of the Ukrainian People’s Republic were reflected in Boyarka’s fate. Battles took place here between the Ukrainian Galician Army and the armed forces of southern Russia.
On 1 September 1919 Ukrainian troops were forced to retreat. On 3 September terrible events occurred – under the command of officers of General Bredov’s division, soldiers carried out Jewish pogroms and shot the Jewish population of the villages of Budaivka and Zabiria who had no chance to flee to Kyiv (mostly elderly people and women). Among those shot was Sholem Aleichem’s own uncle, Motl Rabinovych. They are buried at this place, not far from Boyarka station.
(according to historians and local historians Serhii Lysenko and Andrii Kovaliov)