Obj. ID: 44872
Modern Jewish Art Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Colonia Avigdor, Argentina, 2022
Who is Commemorated?
The Victims of the Holocaust and the Righteous Among the Nations as well as victims of antisemitic attacks in Argentina.
Description
Seven black steles, all rectangular in shape but roughly textured and set facing different angles, make up this monument. They are set in a line, with the tallest in the center with three dedicatory plaques and the stele progressively shrinking the further away they get from it.
Set on top of the tallest stele are six settings for memorial candles, with a seventh offset and raised a little higher.
Inscriptions
On the upper plaque identical inscriptions in Spanish and Hebrew.
In Spanish:
Izkor
Que sus almas estén unidas a los lazos de la vida eterna
Translation: Izkor [the Hebrew word "remember" transcribed in Latin letters]/ May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
In Hebrew
יזכור
יהיו נשמותיהם צרורות בצרור החיים
Translation: Remember / May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
On the middle plaque in Spanish:
Monumento en recordación de
las Víctimas del Holocausto
perpetrado por el nazismo (SHOA)
Para todas las personas que han
sido justo entre las naciones
Jasidei Umot Ha-Olam
Translation: Monument in memory of the victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazism (SHOA) / For all the people who have been Righteous among the Nations
On the lower plaque in Spanish:
En memoria a los Pioneros de Colonia Ávigdor,
fundada en 1936
Centro Unión Israelita – Abril 2022
Como recuerdo del atentado
a la Embajada de Israel en Argentina
Centro Unión Israelita
Colonia Avigdor - Abril 2022
Homenaje al atentado a AMIA de Buenos Aires
Centro Unión Israelita
Colonia Ávigdor - Abril 2022
Translation: In memory of the Pioneers of Colonia Avigdor, founded in 1936. Centro Unión Israelita, April 2022 / As a memory of the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Argentina, Centro Unión Israelita, Colonia Avigdor, April 2022 / Tribute to the attack on AMIA in Buenos Aires, Centro Unión Israelita, Colonia Avigdor, April 2022
Commissioned by
Centro Unión Israelita ?
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Avigdor was founded in 1936 by founded the Jewish Colonization Association specifically to accept the German Jews fleeing the Nazis. Avigdor reached its maximum Jewish population only four years after it was established, in 1940. At that time it held 660, whereas in 1960 the figure stood at 213. [Winsberg] The Jewish settlement was active until 1999.
The monument was designed by Jeremías Pfeifer, an architecture student and fourth-generation descendant of the Jewish settlement.
It was inaugurated on June 26th, 2022
"Se inauguró en Colonia Avigdor, Entre Ríos, el primer Monumento al Holocausto," Vis Á Vís - Cadena Judía - Noticias Israel, June 29, 2022, https://visavis.com.ar/2022/06/29/se-inauguro-en-colonia-avigdor-entre-rios-el-primer-monumento-al-holocausto/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=POSTEO_REDES&utm_campaign=29062022 (accessed March 12, 2023)
Winsberg, Morton D., "Jewish Agricultural Colonization in Entre Rios, Argentina, I: Some Social and Economic Aspects of a Venture in Resettlement," The American Journal of Economics and Sociology 27(3) (July 1968): 285-295., https://www.jstor.org/stable/3485094 (accessed March 12, 2023)