Obj. ID: 50482
Memorials New Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish Cemetery in Santiago de Chile, Chile
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Hungarian Jews killed in the Holocaust
Individual Victims of the Holocaust
Description
This memorial is a six-sided structure constructed of a hexagonal roof of light grey stone slabs supported at the corners by rectangular dark marble pillars, and a fluted round pillar at its center. The outward faces of the roof have inscriptions of a silver metal, mostly the names of Death Camps flanked with depictions of eternal light and an emblem of Yad va-Shem, though one carries a dedicatory inscription. The bottom of the roof stone is embossed with a Magen David that covers the entirety of that face. Protruding from the central pillars are six rectangular slabs, oriented with the six external pillars, that bear personal memorial plaques (the words of which are not written below).
Inscription
Side 1
Hebrew
על אלה אנו בוכיה עיני עיני ירדה מים
כי-רחק ממני מנחם משיב נפשי
Translation: For these things do I weep, my eyes flow with tears / far from me is any comforter who might revive my spirit (Lamentations 1:16, translation from JPS 1985)
Spanish
Por ellos lloramos, nuestros ojos se llenan de lágrimas,
no podemos consolarnos jamás.
En memoria de los 500.000 judíos de habla húngara,
exterminados en los campos de concentración por los
nazis durante el Holocausto 1939-1945
Translation:
For them we cry, our eyes fill with tears, we can never be consoled. / In memory of the 500,000 Hungarian-speaking Jews exterminated in concentration camps by the Nazis during the Holocaust 1939-1945
Side 2
Hebrew
מי[?]דאנעק
מאותהאוזען
Spanish
Maidanek
Mauthausen
Side 3
Hebrew
אושוויטץ
בירכנאו
Spanish
Auchwitz
Birkenau
Side 4
Hebrew
בערנען - בעלזען
דאכאו
Spanish
Bergen-Belsen
Dachau
Side 5
Hebrew
בוכנוולד
ראוענסברוק
Spanish
Buchenwald
Rawensbruk
Side 6
Hebrew
טרעבלינקא
גרוס - רוזען
Spanish
Treblinka
Gross-Rosen
Commissioned
[to be determined]
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