Obj. ID: 44374
Jewish Funerary Art  Holocaust Memorial in the New Jewish Cemetery in Ioannina, Greece, 1999

To the main object: New Jewish Cemetery in Ioannina, Greece

Who is Commemorated?

The Jewish population of Ioannina

Description:

Inside the cemetery, a short way from the entrance and on the right of the main path, is a marble monument dedicated to victims of the Holocaust.

The monument's form is that of the modern tombs in the cemetery, though slightly more elaborate:

As a base it has a slab of white marble, upon which is set a low rectangular raised box with black side slabs, with white slabs on top. On the front side of this box the name and telephone number of the monuments fabricator are inscribed as a signature.

Four short square-plan stanchions placed at the corners of the white marble base, which are connected with a light metal chain. Inside the chain at the front of the monument is a lower step-like rectangular box, also with black sides and white top, upon which is set a white urn.

Set on to and towards the back of the larger raised box is a small black slab with a bronze Magen David, laid flat. Behind this rises a tall, stele of black marble, framed in white marble. On this is a commemorative inscription in Hebrew and Greek, above which ia bronze seven-branch menorah showing lit flames is depicted. Set atop this stele is a second white urn.

Inscriptions

Hebrew:

לזכר קדושי קהילת
יואנינה
שהושמדו על ידי הנאצים
ומקום קבורתם לא ידוע

Translation: In memory of martyrs from the community / of Ioannina / that were exterminated by the Nazis / and a place of their burial is not known

Greek:

ΣΤΗ MΝΗΜΗ

ΤΩΝ ΙΩΑΝΝΙΤΩΝ ΕΒΡΑΙΩΝ

ΠΟΥ EΞΟΝΤΩΘΗΚΑΝ

ΑΠΟ ΤΟΥΣ NΑΖΙ

ΚΑΤΑ ΤΟΝ

Β. ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟ ΠΟΛΕΜΟ

Translation: In Memory of the Jews if Ioannina who were killed by the Nazis in World War II

Commissioned by

Council of the Jewish Community of Ioannina and the Kabili Leon family.