Obj. ID: 56131
Memorials Kovel Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Kovel, Ukraine (in 1939 Kovel, Poland), and the surrounding area who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Southeastern section of the cemetery, among many other memorials commemorating destroyed Jewish communities.
The monument is made of light grey stone. At the top of the main slab is an engraved image of the Great synagogue in Kovel.
In front of the main slab is a rectangular stone platform with a lying stone slab covered with small black pebbels. On either side of the monument are small granite pillars, connected with metal chains.
The inscriptions indicate that the monument contains the ashes of the Jews, who perished in the Holocaust and a scroll listing the names of the Jewish community's victims.
Inscription:
On the main slab, in Hebrew:
לזכר קדושי
קובל
והסביבה
ווהלין
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of Kovel and the surrounding area (Volhynia).
On the lying slab, in Hebrew:
מי יתן ראשי מים
ועיני מקור דמעה
ואבכה יומם ולילה
את חללי בת עמי
ירמיהו ה' כ"ג י"ח
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of Kovel and the surrounding area (Volhynia) / Oh, that my head were water / and my eyes a fountain of tears / that I might weep day and night / for the slain of my people / [Jeremiah 9:17] / Here lies the ashes of the martyrs / Memorial day: 1 Elul / List of the holy names
On the stone box, from the right, in Hebrew:
מגילת
שמות הקדושים
Translation: The names of the martyrs'/scroll
יום הזכרון
ו אלול
Translation: Memorial day/Vav Elul.
On the right pillar in Hebrew:
פה נטמן
אפר
הקדושים
Translation: Here lie/ashes/of the martyrs.
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Kovel in Israel and the Diaspora (Irgun Yotsei Kovel).
sub-set tree: 
In the 1954 (?), the Association of Jews from Kovel in Israel collected funds to plant a memorial grove in the Martyrs' Forest near Jerusalem [Kovel: A Testimony and Memorial Book, p. 529].
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=877.
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/14622122.
Leoni-Tsuperfin, Eliezer (ed.), Kovel: A Testimony and Memorial Book for Our Annihilated Community (Tel Aviv: Irgun Yotsei Kovel be-Yisrael, 1957), https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4617c3d0-7a72-0133-3b5f-00505686d14e (accessed June 8, 2025)