Obj. ID: 44756
Jewish Architecture Holocasut Victims Memorial Plaque in the Cemetery Chapel in Bačka Topola, Serbia, between 1945 and 1948
To the main object: Cemetery Chapel in Bačka Topola
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Victims of the Holocaust from Bačka Topola
Description
The plaque is placed inside Beit Tahara, mounted on one of the walls. It is next to a memorial plaque honoring Jewish soldiers who fell in World War II.
The plaque is made of white stone and bears inscriptions in Serbo-Croatian and Hebrew at its top. The plaque is decorated with two engraved Magen David on each side of these inscriptions. Below are the victims' names, written in Latin script in alphabetical order, according to Serbian (phonetic) spelling.
Inscriptions
Hebrew
לזכרון עולם
Translation: For eternal memory
Serbo-Croatian
Žrtve fašizma
Translation: Victims of fascism
1941-1945
[Below are inscribed the names of the victims]
Commissioned by
The Jewish community of Bačka Topola
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Between 1947 and 1948, there were several similar "ad hoc, uncoordinated initiatives that were driven largely by the sense of obligation of the surviving Jews towards their murdered relatives and friends" [Kerenji, p. 209]. As a result of these initiatives small monuments and plaques were dedicated by communities in Vojvodina, among them Subotica, Sombor, Stara Kanjiža and Senta.
Kerenji, Emil, “Jewish Citizens of Socialist Yugoslavia: Politics of Jewish Identity in a Socialist State, 1944–1974,” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 2008, p. 209., https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/60848/ekerenji_1.pdf?sequence=1. June 2020 (accessed February 23, 2022)
Kocsis, Antal, A topolyai zsidó temető, (Bačka Topola: Pannonian Print, 2014)
Kocsis, Antal, “Topolyai zsidók,” Bácsország: vajdasági honismereti szemle 30 (2004), pp. 80-85.
"Memorials in Bačka Topola," Locations (Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials Project), https://www.vhmproject.org/en-US/Locations/Memorials/3 (accessed June 7, 2023)
Ungar, Olga, "Remembering the Victims: Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials," in Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe: Experiences, Positions, Memories (=Schriften des Centrums für jüdische Studien, vol. 37) eds Renate Hansen-Kokoruš and Olaf Terpitz, pp. 217-236.