Obj. ID: 54344
Memorials Memorial to Stolin victims of the Holocaust in the Baron de Hirsh Jewish Cemetery, Montreal, Canada, 1983
To the main object: Baron de Hirsch Jewish Cemetery in Montreal, Canada
Name of Monument
No official name
What/Who is commemorated?
The Holocaust Jewish Victims of Stolin and Vicinity
Description
The monument has a wide rectangular gray granite base form which rise three elements: two tall rectangular inscribed gray granite stele-tyle slabs with an even taller red granite stone pillar in between that is shaped as Magen David (six-pointed star). On this star-shaped pillar is inscribed “Remember the 6 Million” in English and Yiddish.
Inscriptions
On the central star-shaped pillar, in English:
REMEMBER THE 6 MILLION
On the central star-shaped pillar, in Yiddish:
צום אייביקן אנדענק פון די 6 מיליאן קדושים
Translation: In eternal memory of six million Jews
On the left slab, front side and back side, in English:
LET US NOT FORGET
OUR MARTYRED BRETHREN
FROM THESE TOWNS AND VILLAGES
[List of Towns and Villages]
Back side, in Hebrew, prayer El Male Rechamim
On the right slab, in Hebrew:
זכרון לדורות
ליהודי סטולין
רובליע והסביבה
ביניהם המשפחה הקדושה פערלאוו
גזע חסידות קרלין סטולין והמשפחת
האדמור ר אשר פיאלקאוו ז'ל
שנרצחו בידי הנאצים
ועוזריהם עם רוב העם
Translation: In memory for generations of the Jews of Stolin, Rubel and the surrounding area, among them the holy family of Perlov, of the Karlin Stolin Hasidism, and the family the R. Asher Fialkov, who were murdered by the Nazis and their assistants along with the majority of the people.
On the right slab, in Yiddish:
צום אייביקן אנדענק
זאלן דורות ניט פארגעסן
אונדוערע טייערע משפחות
פון סטאלין רובליע און אומגעגגט
אומגעקומענע
דורך די נאצישע רוצחים
און ארויסהעלפערס י"ש
ערב ראש השנה תש"ב
Translation: To the eternal memory, generations will not forgot our dear families from Stolin, Rubel, and the surrounding area, killed by the Nazi murderers and their helpers on the eve of Rosh Hashanah 1942.
On the right slab, in English:
IN SACRED MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS
OF STOLIN AND VICINITY WHO WERE
MURDERED BY THE NAZIS AND THEIR
COLLABORATORS ON THE EVE OF ROSH
HASHANAH 5742 - 1942
On the right slab, in French:
A LA MEMORIE ETERNELLE DES MARTYRS
JUIFS DE LA VILLE DE STOLIN ET SES
ENVIRONS QUI ONT ETE MEURTRIS PAR
LES NAZIS ET LEURS COLLABORATEURS
5742 - 1942
Translation: In sacred memory of the martyrs of Stolin and vicinity who were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators 5742 - 1942
On the base of the monument, in Hebrew:
לזכרון הנשמות של
הרב חיים לייב אייגערמאן ע"ה
ר' שלמה און חשקה גורסקי ע"ה
ר' משה חזן ע"ה
חיה ליפשיץ קאשטאן ע"ה
Translation: In memory of the souls of Rabbi Chaim Leib Eigerman, may he rest in peace, Rabbi Shlomo and Chashke Gurski, may they rest in peace, Rabbi Moshe Hazan, may he rest in peace, Chaya Lipshitz Kashtan, may she rest in peace.
On the base of the monument, in Yiddish:
לזכרון חנן מוראווניק ע"ה
איינער פון שארית הפליטה וואס איז אוועקגענומען געווארן פון אונדז
אין בלי פון זיינע יארן אין די טעג פון זיין איבערגעגעבענער
טעטיקייט פאר דעם צוועק פון אויפשטעלן דעם מאנומענט.
Translation: In memory of Hanan Moravnik, may he rest in peace, one of the survivors who was taken away from us, in spite of his years, in the days of his devoted activity for the purpose of erecting the monument.
On the base of the monument, in English:
ERECTED BY STOLIN & VICINITY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
Commissioned by
Stolin & Vicinity Memorial Association
sub-set tree: 
Red granite
At the turn of the 20th century, as more Jewish immigrants arrived in Montreal the city’s small middle-class Jewish Community needed to meet the burial needs of new, mostly poor, arrivals who had little affiliation with the local congregations. Out of this crisis, the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery was established on an undeveloped expanse of swampland, just outside the city. The Baron de Hirsch Cemetery was planned in 1904 and officially opened in July 1905. The oldest gravestone is dated December 1904 (eight months before the cemetery actually opened). The Cemetery includes 16 memorial monuments to Holocaust victims.
“History,” Baron de Hirsch - Back River Cemeteries., https://barondehirsch.com/en/who-we-are/history/ (accessed June 13, 2024)
“Holocaust Memorials of Canada en Souvenir Eternel,” Museum of Family History., https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hmc-02.htm (accessed June 13, 2024)