Monument to the murdered professors of Lviv, Lviv

Monument to the murdered Lviv professors on the Wuleckie Hills - a Lviv monument dedicated to the professors of Lviv universities murdered by the Nazis, built in 2011 and unveiled on July 3, 2011.

The initiative to build the monument was the President of Wrocław Rafał Dutkiewicz and Mer Lviv Andriy Sadowy. A letter of intent regarding the announcement of a joint competition and construction of the monument was signed by the presidents in 2008, on July 30, 2009 a competition was announced.

The project of the monument selected a Polish-Ukrainian jury, which from among 28 works chose the project of the Krakow sculptor, prof. Aleksander Śliwa. The winning project is a gate made of concrete blocks symbolizing the individual commandments of the Christian Decalogue, in the event of a sliding of one of them from their place, the whole crumbles. Behind the gate there is a transition with a card nailed to it, on which there is a handwritten German order to "shoot". The block marked with the Roman number V is partly extended, which symbolizes the fracture of the fifth commandment of the Christian Decalogue, i.e. the order to murder scholars.

The monument currently does not contain any inscription. His symbolism refers to the fifth commandment of the Decalogue: "Do not kill", but this is not completely unambiguous due to the existence of several ways to divide the biblical text into individual commandments in other confessions. The message is synonymous with the faithful of the Roman Catholic, Greek Catholic and Lutheran Church. In Orthodoxy, some Protestant denominations, as well as in Judaism and Islam, the fifth commandment means "worship your father and your mother", because the equivalent of the commandment "do not kill" is the sixth commandment there. At the road leading to the monument, a stone plaque was set up with the inscription in Polish, Ukrainian and English: a monument to Lviv professors murdered by the Nazis in 1941 and information that the monument was established thanks to the authorities of Lviv and Wrocław and social sacrifice.

The budget of the monument is about PLN 3,000,000, of which PLN 2,000,000 came from the Wrocław city budget, 800,000 hryvnia from the budget of the city of Lviv, 800,000 hryvnia from the funds of the Lviv Polytechnic, and PLN 200,000 from public collection.

The monument is located at the place of the professors, currently a student park. Above the Jarem in which it was built, there are academic houses of the Lviv Polytechnic. On the hill above the monument there is a symbolic tombstone with a cross built in 1991 by families of the murdered. There is a plaque with the inscription in Polish and Ukrainian "here on July 4, 1941, Nazi torturers shot Polish professors of Lviv universities and their family members" and a full name list of victims.

The whole work until the unveiling lasted two years, the very unveiling of the monument took place on July 3, 2011, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the crime. At the ceremony, among others Polish Ambassador in Ukraine, presidents of both cities and delegations of Polish universities and Lviv, Senators of the Republic of Poland, people of science and culture from Poland and Lviv, as well as representatives of local authorities.

This is the first monument erected in Lviv after Ukraine regained independence not related to Ukrainian national heroes.