Name of Monument
No official name
What/Who is commemorated?
885 Jews deported from Liptovský Mikuláš
Description
A bronze wall plaque depicts a broken inscribed broken gravestone (matzevah). A stylized hand reaches up and seems to be dragging its fingers down through the text as if the bronze were clay, leaving four uneven track marks through the inscription, obscuring some texts. Below and to the right is a two-line admonition (Remember) in squared Hebrew letters, followed by in inscription in Slovak about the fate of the Jews of Liptovský Mikuláš.
Inscriptions
On the plaque, in Hebrew:
לזכר נשמות
קדושי עמנו
Translation: In memory of the souls of martyrs from among our people
On the plaque, in Slovak:
Z LIPTOVSKÉHO MIKULÁŠA
V ROKOOH 1943-1945 DEPORTOVALI
885 ŽIDOVSKYOR OBČANOV
DO KONCENTRAČNÝCH TÁBOROV
CELEJ EURÓPY,
NA VEČNÚ PAMIATKU UMUŠENÝM
1992
Translation: From Liptovsky Mikuláš 885 Jewish citizens were deported in the years 1943-1945 to concentration camps all of Europe. In eternal memory of the dead. 1992
Commissioned by
Museum of Jewish Culture, Bratislava (a branch of the Slovak National Museum)