Obj. ID: 50030
Jewish Funerary Art The Policer Family Graves in the Jewish cemetery in Stara Pazova, Serbia
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Stara Pazova, Serbia
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Comemmorated?
Pavle Policer and Jeny Policer Etinger (Eugenia-Jenny Policer Ettinger), victims of the Holocaust
Description
The tombstone of Armin Policer (1874-1935), who passed away before World War II, is located in the Jewish section of the multi-confessional cemetery in Stara Pazova. It is made of black granite and has the shape of an obelisk. After the war, the names of Politzer Jeny nee Etinger (1876-1944) and Politzer Pavle (1911-murdered May 6, 1942) were added to the grave.
Inscriptions
From top to bottom
Hebrew
פ"נ
הה"ר [הרב הגדול ר'] ירמיה בן
ברך
Translation: Here lies [the great teacher Rabbi] Jeremiah son of Baruch
Serbo-Croatian
Armin Policer
1874-1935
Politzer
Jeny r. Etinger
Rodj 1876 god
Ubijena u logoru
Osvjenčin 1944
Politzer
Pavle rodj 1911
Nastradao 6 maja 1942
Od fašista
Translation: Armin Policer. 1874-1935 / Jeny née Ettinger Politzer. Born in 1876, killed in Auschwitz in 1944 / Pavle Politzer. Born in 1911, killed by the fascists on May 6, 1942
Hebrew
תנצבה
Translation: May their souls be bound in the bundle of life
At the very bottom of the monument, possibly the name of a stonemason or workshop (Serbo-Croatian):
Újhely Vrbas
Commissioned by
Unknown, possibly a surviving member of the family
5 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Újhely Vrbas
Jews began settling in Stara Pazova in the 18th century. In 1903, the community purchased a building at the address 2 Cyril and Methodius Street and used it as a synagogue. There was also a Jewish school. Before the Holocaust, 54 Jews lived in this town. The synagogue building was destroyed in 1942. There is no memorial plaque on the site.
The Policer family lived in Stara Pazova. Armin Policer was married to Eugenia Jenny née Ettinger. Armin and Jenny had a son Pavle, born in 1911 in Stara Pazova, who was a merchant. Pavle was married to Gabriela. When World War II broke out, Jenny, Pavle, and Gabriela lived in Zemun.
The information about the place of death of Jenny (Auschwitz) was confirmed using Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims. According to information provided by the Inter-academic Commission of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and Hungarian Academy of Sciences for the identification of civilian victims in Vojvodina during and after the Second World War (1941-1948) and Yad Vashem’s Central Database of Shoah Victims, Pavle Politzer was killed in the Sajmište concentration camp.
The Stara Pazova Municipality maintains the cemetery.
"Memorial in Stara Pazova," Locations (Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials Project), https://www.vhmproject.org/en-US/Locations/Memorials/21 (accessed June 21, 2023)
Šosberger, Pavle. Sinagoge u Vojvodini: Spomanica minulog vremena (Novi Sad, 1998)
“Pavle Policer,” “Gabriela Policer,” “Eugenie Policer,” The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names (Yad Vashem Project), https://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en&s_id=&s_lastName=Policer&s_firstName=&s_place=Stara%20Pazova&s_dateOfBirth=&cluster=true (accessed June 21, 2023)