An initiative to set up a monument to victims of the Lviv ghetto was
taken by the Sholem Aleichem Society of Jewish Culture (1988). The monument was
installed in 1992 under a project designed by sculptor Luiza Shterenshtein and
architect Vasyl Plikhivskyi. A place near the railway bridge was chosen for its
location, where the main entrance to the ghetto had been located.