Obj. ID: 52812
Memorials Memorial to Ostroh Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Ostroh, Poland (today Ostroh, 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 an upright stone slab with a memorial candle on its low left side set on a base. The upright slab is decorated with an image of the western gable of the Great Maharsha Synagogue in Ostroh (very schematic) and a dedicatory inscription. The base has a lying slab on it, with a dedicatory inscription.
The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions that honor the memory of the community. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size. One of the inscriptions indicates that the monument contains the ashes of the Jewish victims.
The monument is surrounded by a metal fence, ornamented with a Menorah.
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
גלעד
לקהילה עתיקת יומין דתת"ס
התש"ב לפ"ג 1100-1942
אוסטראה
עיר המרש"א
פלך ווהלין-פולין
שנכחדה בשואה ע"י הנאצים הגרמנים
ועוזריהם
בשנים תש"א תש"ב 1942 1941 בשלוש
אקציות השמדה
האקציה הראשונה י"א במנחם אב תש"א 4 אוגוסט 1941
האקציה השניה ט' באלול תש"א ו' בספטמבר 1941
חיסול הגטו בעיר ד' במרחשון תש"ב 15 אוקטובר 1942
יום הזיכרון י"ד באלול
המצבה הוקמה ע"י יוצאי אוסטראה
ווהלין בישראל ובתפוצות
Translation: A Monument / To the ancient community 400 [1100]/ 5702 [1942] 1100-1942 / Ostroh / City of the Maharsha [Rabbi Shmuel Eliezer HaLevi Eidels]/ Volhynia-Poland region / Which was exterminated in the Holocaust by the German Nazis / and their collaborators / In the years 1941-1942 in three exterminations / The first extermination 11 Menachem Av 5701 4 August 1941 / The second extermination 9 Elul 57016 September 1941 / Liquidation of the ghetto in the city 4 Marcheshvan 5702 15 October 1942 / Memorial Day 14 Elul / The monument was erected by the survivors of Ostroh / Volhynia in Israel and the Diaspora.
On the lying slab, in Hebrew:
פה נטמן אפר מקבר אחים
Translation: here lie ashes from a mass grave.
Commissioned by:
Organisation of Ostroh natives.
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According to the Yizkor book (memorial book) of the community, the monument was erected on September 13th, 1981. (Alperovits, pp. 295).
On the Ghetto House Archive website, there is a historical photo of the monument, which shows that originally, the central slab was of a different form. The inscription was the same but designed differently. On the image of the synagogue (which still exists today on the central slab), there was an inscription in Hebrew :
מי יתן ראשי מים ועיני מקור דמעה
ואבכה יומם ולילה את חללי בת עמי
ירמיהו ח י"ג
Translation: Who will turn my head into water and my eyes into a fountain of tears, so I can weep day and night for the slain of my people. Jeremiah 8:13.
Next to the left side of the monument there used to be a sculpture of a candle with a flame, on a candle holder (today it was replaced with a column). It had a Hebrew inscription on it:
זכרם
לא
ימוש
מלבנו
לנצח
Translation: Their memory will never fade from our hearts.
"Execution of Jews in Ostroh."
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/en/#village/ostroh-ostrog-rivne-ukraine.222.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Alperovits, Yitshak (ed.), Sefer Osṭraʼah : (Ṿohlin) : matsevet zikaron li-ḳehilah ḳedoshah, (Tel-Aviv: Irgun yotsʼe Osṭraʼah be-Yiśraʼel, 1987)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0c073890-5405-0133-d2db-00505686d14e.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see "Ostrog,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14683350.
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 36566"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36566.jpg.