Obj. ID: 52826
Memorials Memorial to Lubartów Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Lubartów, Poland, 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 memorial monument consists of an upright black marble slab with a niche in the middle set on the base. A wide white marble slab is inserted in the upper part of the black slab and serves as "the ceiling" for the niche.
Inside the niche is a relief showing a synagogue (Lubelska St.) in its lower part and the upper part has two memorial candles flanking a Star of David and a yellow scroll with the word "Remember" in Hebrew on the top of it.
The base has a white plaque with an inscription and a bowl set on it.
The monument is surrounded by four short obelisks, connected with a metal chain.
Inscription:
On the black marble slab, in Hebrew:
גל עד לקדושי
Translation: Memorial to the martyrs/ Remember/
On the wide white marble slab:
לוברטוב
והסביבה
Translation: Lubartów/ and the surrounding area/
To the left of the depiction of the synagogue, in Yiddish:
געדענק
Translation: Remember
On the scroll, in large letters in Hebrew:
זכור
Translation: Remember
The scroll itself is titled in Hebrew, while the history of the community is written in Yiddish:
קיצור מגילת לוברטוב
Translation: Abridged scroll of Lubartów [followed by text in Yiddish].
On the lower part of the upright black marble slab, in Hebrew:
שמות
הקדושים
Translation: Names of the martyrs.
On the plaque set on the base, in Hebrew:
עליה לבניכם ספרו
ובניכם לבניהם
ובניהם לדור אחר
(יואל)
Translation: Tell your children about it/ And let your children tell their children/ And their children another generation/(Joel) [Joel 1:3]
On the back side of the monument, in Yiddish:
לעווערטאוו
Translation: Lubartów.
Commissioned by:
Holocaust survivors from Lubartów.
sub-set tree: 
Niche height: 215 cm
Niche width: 160 cm
Niche depth: 49.5 cm
Base length : 160 cm
Base width: 150 cm
Base height: 22 cm
According to the Virtual Shtetl, the synagogue was turned into stables by Nazi Germans and destroyed in 1941. After WWII its ruins were pulled down. [Virtual Shtetl]
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Encyclopedia of the ghettos (Yad Vashem project) , https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=514.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Tshubinski, Barukh, ed., Ḥurbn Leṿerṭov (Paris: Aroysgegebn fun di fraynṭ fun Leṿerṭoṿ, 1947)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0e5fe530-6564-0133-a88f-00505686d14e (accessed August 4, 2024)
For the history of the monument, see
Brutin, Batya. Lihyot im ha-zikaron: andartot le-zekher ha-sho'ah be-israel (Ghetto Fighters House, 2005), 195.
"Lubartów" [in Hebrew]
Center of Organizations of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, https://www.holocaust-s.org/אנדרטת-מצבה/לוברטוב-והסביבה/.
"Synagogue (12 Lubelska Street),"
Virtual Shtetl (POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews), https://sztetl.org.pl/en/towns/l/691-lubartow/112-synagogues-houses-of-prayer-and-others/86486-synagogue-12-lubelska-street#footnote2_9xlop8h.