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.
The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions that honor the memory of the community. The community names are emphasized through the use of a larger font size.
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.
sub-set tree: 
W | Weapons
F | Family | Mother | Mother and child
|
Height of the sculpture: 104 cm
Length of the base: 182 cm
Width of the base: 123 cm
height of the base: 39 cm
The memorial is the only communal memorial in the cemetery that "granted physical heroism a plastic expression." [Baumel, 2007: 168] Baumel believes that it was very uncommon for communal Holocaust memorials built between the 1960s and 1980s to refer to heroism in any way. Baumel surveyed 426 communal Holocaust memorials in Israel, and only 8 mentioned "armed resistance."[Baumel, 1995: 157, 168] During the survey made by CJA in the cemetery in Holon, researchers found 18 memorials mentioning partisans, fighters, or resistance.
Baumel, Judith, “In Everlasting Memory - Individual and Communal Holocaust Commemoration in Israel,” in The Shaping of Israeli Identity: Myth, Memory, and Trauma, ed. Robert Wistrich and David Ohana (London: F. Cass, 1995), 146-170.
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.