Obj. ID: 46879
Memorials Holocuast memorial in the cemetery in Dolga Vas in Lendava, Slovenia, 1947
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Lendava, Slovenia
Name of the Monument
no official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews of the Prekmurje region murdered during the Holocaust
Description
The memorial is a stepped structure. The upper step is topped with a sculpture of a tree with broken branches and an upright slab decorated with Magen David.
The slab is inscribed with a dedication in Slovene.
Inscriptions
In Slovene:
In memoriam
Žrtvam fašizma
1941 - 1945
Translation: In memory of victims of Fascism 1941-1945
Commissioned by
Survivors Lajos/Ludwig Blau, Erzsébet/Elizabeta and János/Janez Fürst, and Ladislav Weiss.
sub-set tree: 
Sculpted tree trunk is 155 cm high
On April 26, 1944, 112 Ledava Jews were assembled at the synagogue and then transported (to Čakovec, then Nagykanizsa, and finally to Auschwitz.
Of these Jews, only eight survived. After a history dating to the 18th century, the community was reduced to fewer than ten men and women, too few to resume synagogue life. Most Lendava survivors did not want to remain in post-war Yugoslavia. Survivors Lajos/Ludwig Blau, Erzsébet/Elizabeta and János/Janez Fürst, and Ladislav Weiss, arranged in 1947 for the erection of the Holocaust memorial monument at the cemetery. This was the first and for a long time the only, Holocaust Memorial monument in Lendava.
The photographs made in the 2010s show pebbles on the steps of the memorials and memorial candles, both indicating that the memorial is visited.
Hajdinjak, Boris, Vrnitev domov: zgodbe stolpersteinov lendavskih judovskih družin / Hazatérés: a lendvai zsidó családok botlatóköveinek történetei, (Lendava: Galerija-Muzej Lendava, 2023)
"Lendava," International Jewish Cemetery Project, https://iajgscemetery.org/eastern-europe/slovenia/lendava (accessed July 7, 2024)