Judaica / Zionism - Ukraine, Holocaust memorial medals, 1944

Judaica / Zionism - Ukraine, Holocaust memorial medals, 1944 A pair of rare memorial medals, likely produced in Ukraine in 1944, commemorating the Jewish victims murdered between 1940 and 1944 by the Nazis and their collaborators. The inscriptions appear in Yiddish and English, and each medal features a stylized memorial monument symbolizing the destroyed Jewish communities. Right Medal: Obverse: English inscriptions "1940 1944" "In memorial Ukraine Jewish Nazi victims" with the small inscription "Jerusalem" below. Central relief of a memorial monument. Reverse: Blank. Weight: 12.655 g Diameter: 30 mm Left Medal: Obverse: Yiddish inscriptions "1940 1944" "זכר פאר אונזערע קדושים פון אוקראינה שוסטינר" Central relief of the same monument. Reverse: Blank. Weight: 11.451 g Diameter: 30 mm These medals represent rare early Holocaust memorial items, produced locally to honor the memory of Jewish communities destroyed during World War II.