The monument is dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Jewish pogrom in Proskuriv. More than 1,600 people died during the 1919 Proskuriv pogrom. In 1925, a monument to the survivors of World War II was erected with the funds raised, but it needed restoration, which was carried out in 2000-2001. Bronze bas-reliefs were made by Khmelnytskyi sculptor Konstantyn Korzhev.