Approximately 600 Poles murdered in 1943 by members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) were buried in the old and new cemeteries in Huta Stepańska. After the Second World War, these cemeteries were liquidated and the areas were built over, making it impossible to later commemorate the victims at their resting place. After 1991, when Ukraine became an independent state, the Social Committee for the Commemoration of the Victims in Huta Stepanska led to the erection of a symbolic grave - a monument to the victims - in the old cemetery. This monument was built in June 1996.

It is a concrete three-stage slab on which a 7.5 m high cross was erected from three metal pipes spatially connected. The transverse arm of the cross bears the inscription "Jesus save us". A basalt slab with the text in Polish and Ukrainian was placed at the bottom: "To the memory of Poles from Huta Stepanska and the surrounding area, deceased and murdered before 19 July 1943". The inscription on the cross refers to the inscription on the oak cross erected in Huta Stepańska in June 1943, at the time of the deadly threat to the population by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.