Grave of the Remel Victims
On 17 March 1943 a punitive action by SS men and Polish auxiliary police wiped out 85% of the village.
On the night of 17 March 1943 SS men together with policemen of the Polish Schutzmannschaft surrounded Remel near Oleksandriia and burned the village — revenge for UPA actions nearby, including the killing of the German commandant and the Ukrainian police going over to the insurgents on 15 March. The dead are counted differently: 390 by the pre-war village head, which was 85% of the inhabitants, over 400 according to the community, or 460 — as the mass grave is recorded in the 2010 list of the Rivne District Council; 73 people survived. A wooden cross stood on the mass grave, later replaced by a tall cross of black granite; next to it is the Church of the Myrrh-bearing Women. Separately, the village has a Soviet-era "Monument to the Victims of Fascism", listed among the historical monuments of Rivne district. The village honours the dead every 17 March.
The grave and the cross stand by the church in the village of Remel, Oleksandriia community, Rivne district, in the open.