Obj. ID: 44878
Jewish Funerary Art  Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Santa Fe, Argentina, 1953

Who is Commemorated?

The six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust

Description

This monument consists of two parts:

The first part is a white structure reminiscent of a greek temple, with two ionic columns and a triangular roof with a Magen David in the pediment, a small room at the back being the only other part of the structure. A plaque is placed above the doorway to this small room and within a plaque depicting a Jewish man being attacked by German soldiers. An exterior wall bears 24 memorial plaques commemorating family members killed in the Holocaust with inscriptions in Hebrew, Spanish and Yiddish; the largest among them is a dedicatory plaque with the names of the Board of Directors when the monument was erected.

Next to the "Greek temple" structure appears a low brick base, with a number of stelae (six?) erected on top of it and a tribute plaque inscribed in Spanish.

Inscriptions

Above the doorway of the "Greek temple" structure:

In Hebrew:

לזכרון נצח
של ה-6,000,000 הקדושים שלנו שנרצחו ע"י
הנאצים הפראים באירופה. ינקם ד' את דמם ות. נ. צ. ב. ה

Translation: Eternal memory / of our six million martyrs murdered by / wild Nazis in Europe.  May God avenge their blood and may their souls be bound in the bundle of life

In Yiddish:

צום אייביקן אנדענק פון אונדזערע 6,000,000 קדושים וואם
זענען אומגעקומען דורך די ווילדע נאצים אין אייראפע. ת.נ.צ.כ.ה

Translation: Eternal memory / of our six million martyrs murdered by / wild Nazis in Europe. May their souls be bound in the bundle of life

In Spanish:

Para el recuerdo perpetuo de los 6,000,000 de
n/ mártires sucumbidos por las hordas nazis en Europa

Translation: For the perpetual memory of our 6,000,000 martyrs who succumbed to the Nazi hordes in Europe.

The wall with the dedicatory plaques. 

On the Dedicatory Plaque devoted to the Board of Directors in Spanish:

Gloria eterna a nuestros hermanos
caídos en Europa, por las hordas nazis.
Comisión directiva,
en cuyo periodo, año 1953, se erigió este monumento
para perpetuar los 6,000,000 de nuestros mártires.

Titulo Nombre Apellido

[...]

Translation: Eternal glory to our brothers in Europe, victims of the Nazi hordes. / Board of Directors / during which period, in 1953, this monument was erected to commemorate the 6,000,000 of our martyrs. //Followed by seventeen names of the Board of Directors 

On the Tribute Plaque

In Hebrew inside Magen David:

פ''נ [=פה נקבר/נטמן]

Translation: Here buried [traditional Hebrew formula placed on the gravestone]

In Spanish:

Homenaje
a los 6,000,000
de hermanos

Translation: Tribute to the 6,000,000 brothers

Commissioned by

Jewish Community