Img. ID: 62809
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Comemmorated?
Holocaust victims from Bačko Petrovo Selo
Description
This memorial is shaped like an upright stele, with a triangular capstone, standing on a two-stepped plinth. It is made of white stone (possibly marble).
The inscriptions on the memorial are in Hebrew and Serbo-Croatian. There is also a separate commemorative inscription in memory of the last community's rabbi, teacher, and rabbinical judge Shlomo Präger, and his wife Rivka. The names of the victims are written in Yiddish orthography. They are written not as a list of victims but are commemorating entire families. The pattern of commemoration is the following: the man’s profession or status within the community (aka. rabbi, teacher, gabbai, etc.), the name of the man of the house, the name of his wife, and the names of their children.
Inscriptions
On the Capstone (Hebrew)
הקדושים מקהילתינו שנהרגו ונשרפו על קד' ה'ש באושוויץ, באוקריינא, בהונגריא ובגרמניה
אבינו מלכנו נקום לעינינו נקמת דם עבדיך השפוך
קהל
אלם [?] לפעטראוואסעלע
Translation: The names of the martyrs from our community who were killed and burned for sanctification of the Name [Kiddush HaShem] in Auschwitz, Ukraine, Hungary, and Germany. / Our Father, our King avenge before our eyes, the blood of your servants that has been spilled. / Community [illegible]. Petrovoselo
On the Main Body of the Monument
Hebrew
הר"הג הב"ד ומוה"ר ]מורנו הרב[שלמה ברוך פראגער ואשתו רבקה, והי"ד [הילדים] חיים יעקוב, יודא מרדכי
Translation: Great Rabbi, rabbinical judge, and our teacher Rabbi Shlomo Baruch Präger and his wife Rivka, and children Chaim Yaakov, Judah Mordechai
[List of Victims]
תנצבה
Translation: May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
Serbo-Croatian
Večna uspomena 274 Jevrejima stanovnika ovog mesta nesrećnim žrtvama nemačko-
mađarske fašističke agresije istrijebljenim u Aušvicu, Ukrajini, Nemačkoj i Mađarskoj.
Translation: Eternal memory of 274 Jewish residents of this place, the unfortunate victims of the German-Hungarian fascist aggression exterminated in Auschwitz, Ukraine, Germany and Hungary.
Commissioned by
The Jewish community of Bačko Petrovo Selo.