Obj. ID: 56111
Memorials Chomsk Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Chomsk, Belarus (today Khomsk, Belarus), who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Southeastern Alley of the cemetery, among dozens of other Holocaust memorials erected by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives.
It consists of a reddish stone monument featuring a small metal menorah at the top and a metal plaque with a relief of the community's synagogue at the bottom, under which there is a niche for memorial candles.
To the right of the main monument, there is a small reddish stone box with a metal door for storing scrolls bearing the names of the victims. The monument and the stone box stand on a two-stepped base.
On the upper step, there is an inscription indicating that ashes from Holocaust victims are kept inside, along with a small stone-sealed niche. On both sides of the monument, there are stone pillars with metal plaques listing the names of victims from the community. The front area is enclosed with metal posts connected by a metal chain.
The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions honoring the community’s memory. 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 Jews who perished in the Holocaust and that the monument contains a scroll listing the names of the Jewish community’s victims.
Inscription:
on the main monument, in Hebrew:
Translation:
In memory of the martyrs/of the Chomsk community/White Russia/who perished by the oppressor/in the year 5701 [1941]/August 3, 1941/Memorial Day on Tisha B'Av/And He will bring vengeance upon His enemies [Deuteronomy 32:41]/ The monument was erected with the support/of the immigrants from Chomsk/in America and the Diaspora
on the small stone box, in Hebrew:
מגילת שמות
הקדושים
Translation:
Scroll of the names/of the martyrs
on the upper step, in Hebrew:
האפר הובא ממחנה ההשמדה טרבלינקה
Translation:
The ashes were brought from the Treblinka extermination camp
on the metal plaques on the pillars, in Hebrew:
בני העיר "חומסק" שהלכו לעולמם בארץ ובתפוצות
[שמות הנפטרים]
ט' באב תש"ס אוגוסט 2000
Translation:
The Jews of Chomsk/who passed away/in Israel and the Diaspora
[Names of the deceased]
Tisha B'Av 5760/August 2000
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Chomsk, Belarus (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom)
sub-set tree: 
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Encyclopedia of the ghettos (Yad Vashem project) , https://wwv.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=402.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622404.