Obj. ID: 56488
Memorials Memorial to Maków Mazowiecki Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
בהתאם לפורמט המעודכן שלך:
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Maków Mazowiecki, Poland, 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 dark stone monument bearing metal reliefs. The central relief stylizes the name of the town as a blazing flame. The monument stands on a stone base featuring a central flat, horizontal slab, flanked by two narrow vertical side slabs. There is also a small urn on the dark-covered center of the base. The monument is surrounded by four short stone pillars 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.
Inscription:
On the main marble monument, in Hebrew:
Translation:Remember/Maków/Mazowiecki
On the central horizontal slab, in Hebrew:
Translation: Here lie the ashes of our martyrs/who perished in the Holocaust/in the years 5699–5708 [1939–1948]/Memorial Day: 3 Tevet/May God avenge their blood
on the right narrow slab, in Hebrew:
Translation:For great as the sea is your ruin/who can heal you (Lamentations) [Lamentations 2:13]
on the left narrow slab, in Hebrew:
Translation:Tell it to your children/and their children to their children/and their children to the next generation (Joel)
[Joel 1:3]
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Maków Mazowiecki, Poland (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom)
sub-set tree: 
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Brat, Yitzhak, Memorial Book for the Community of Maków Mazowiecki (Tel Aviv: Association of Former Residents of Maków Mazowiecki in Israel and the United States, 1969), https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/36ed2530-5b23-0133-1ffb-00505686a51c (accessed April 7, 2025)
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=624.
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 39119"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36627.jpg.