Obj. ID: 52808
Memorials Manevychi Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon, Bat Yam) Cemetery, Israel, 1980s-90s
Memorial Name:
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Maniewicze, Poland (today Manevychi, Ukraine), who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Western Alley of the cemetery, along with dozens of other Holocaust memorials built by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives.
The monument is a metal sculpture on a stone base surrounded by a metal fence. The sculpture shows a pyramid of human figures holding weapons. At the top of the pyramid is a man raising his arms and holding a rifle, below him are men and women holding weapons, and at the bottom are a woman and a child.
Inscription:
On the base, at the front, in Hebrew:
לזכר קדושי מנייביץ והסביבה (ווהלין)
שנרצחו והושמדו בשואה בידי הגרמנים ועוזריהם
ג' באלול תש"א-כ"ג באלול תש"ב
העיירות חרבו אך בניהן הקימו יחידות פרטיזניות מהוללות
שלחמו בגבורה האויב הנאצי ונקמו במרצחים 1945-1941
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of Manevychi and the surrounding area (Volhynia) / who were murdered and exterminated in the Holocaust by the Germans and their collaborators / 3rd of Elul 5701 - 23rd of Elul 5702 [=August 26, 1941 - September 05, 1942] / The towns were destroyed but their sons established renowned partisan units / that bravely fought the Nazi enemy and avenged the murderers 1941-1945.
On the top of the base, in Hebrew:
לישניבקה פובורסק
טרויאנובקה הורודוק
מנייביץ
Translation: Lishnivka/ Povorsk / Troianivka / Horodok / Manevychi
Commissioned by:
Holocaust survivors from Manevychi.
14 image(s)
sub-set tree:
Height of the sculpture: 104 cm
Length of the base: 182 cm
Width of the base: 123 cm
height of the base: 39 cm
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see "Execution of Jews in Manevychi,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/manevychi-manevichi-maniewicze-volyn-ukraine.169.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see "Maniewicze,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622168.