Obj. ID: 56134
Memorials Hust Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Hust, Czechoslovakia (today Khust, Ukraine), and surrounding communities, who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Southeastern Alley of the cemetery, along with dozens of other Holocaust memorials built by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives. The monument is composed of three large dark stone slabs of varying heights. The left one and the central one are closer to each other and have a star of David on both of them. In front of the monument are a candle holder, a small stone slab, and a metal door on the right slab. The monument bears Hebrew and English 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 a scroll listing the names of the Jewish community's victims.
Inscription:
On the left slab, in English:
IN MEMORIAM / THE HOLY CONGREGATIONS OF / HUST / AND VICINITY P.K.R / VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST
...WHEN YOUR CHILDREN / SHALL ASK THEIR / FATHERS IN TIME TO COME / SAYING WHAT MEAN THESE / STONES THEN YE TELL THEM... / [Joshua 4:21]
On the central slab, in Hebrew:
גל־עד
לזכר קדושי קהילת חוסט
והסביבה
שבהרי הקרפטים
שנספו בשנות השואה
הי״ד
אשר ישאלון בניכם מחר את אבותם לאמר מה האבנים האלה
והודעתם את בניכם [יהושע ד:כא]
Translation: A memorial/In memory of the holy martyrs of the Hust community/and the surrounding area/in the Carpathian Mountains/who perished in the years of the Holocaust/May God avenge their blood/When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying: What mean these stones? Then ye shall tell them [Joshua 4:21]
On the right slab, in Hebrew:
איזה סעלישץ'
אינטר ביסטרה סלדובוש
ברוניב סקרניצה
ברזיב צ'ומליוב
דנילוב קופאניא
דרהיב קופשניב
הורינץ קושלי
וישק קריבה
וילטינה קריניקוב
ליפשה רקיסבה
מינסטריץ שנדרוב
נאנקוב ליפשה פולינה
Translation: Eize Selishch / Inter Bistra / Seldovosh / Broniv / Skarnitsa / Breziv / Chomlyov / Danylov / Kopanya / Drahiv / Kopshniv / Horintz / Kushli / Vyshk / Kriva / Viltina / Krinikov / Limsha / Rakyseva / Minstryts / Shendrov / Nankov / Lipshe-Polina.
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Hust (Irgun Yotsei Hust ve-ha-seviva).
sub-set tree: 
"Execution of Jews in Khust,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/#village/khust-chust-subcarpathian-ukraine.2136.
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=269.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Fuks, Avraham, Hust and Her Daughters: On the History of a Mother City in Israel and Her Rural Communities (Jerusalem: Avraham Fuks, 2007), https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/yizkor-books/yzk-nybc319812/fuchs-abraham-hust-u-venoteha-le-toldot-ir-va-em-be-yisrael-u-kehiloteha (accessed June 26, 2025)