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  Memorial to Hungary Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel, 1987

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2024

Memorial Name:
No official name.

Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Hungary, 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 consists of a tall concrete pillar, slightly broken at the top, with reliefs of doves.
At the base of the pillar, there is a composition of large boulders, each engraved with the name of a Hungarian region  from which Jews were deported and murdered during the Holocaust. A metal plaque affixed to the pillar. The base also includes symbolic decorative elements: two railway tracks and a wheel. The monument bears Hebrew and Hungarian inscriptions honoring the community's memory. The community names are emphasized through the use of a larger font size.

Inscription:

On the pillar, in Hebrew:

ואת אלה אנו מבכים...


Translation: And these we mourn…

On the ground, in Hebrew:

יד זכרון ליהודי הונגריה שנספו בשואה

Translation: Memorial to the Jews of Hungary who perished in the Holocaust.

On the metal plaque, in Hebrew and Hungarian:

800,000 יהודים חיו בהונגריה

לפני השואה. 600,000 מהם הושמדו

ע"י הרוצחים הנאצים וגרורתיהם

לזיכרם הוקם יד זיכרון זה

ע"י התאחדות עולי הונגריה בישראל תשמ"ז

 

 Translation: 800,000 Jews lived in Hungary before the Holocaust / 600,000 of them were annihilated by the Nazi murderers and their collaborators / This memorial was erected in their memory by the Association of Hungarian Immigrants in Israel, 1987 (5747)

 

In Hungarian:

800 000 ZSIDÓ ÉLT MAGYARORSZÁGON
A VÉSZKORSZAK ELŐTT. 600 000 ZSIDÓT
PUSZTÍTOTTAK EL A NÉMET NÁCI GYILKOSOK
ÉS CSATLOSAIK.
EZT AZ EMLÉKMŰVET A HITACHDUT OLEJ HUNGÁRIA, IZRAEL
EMELTE 1987-BEN

 
  

Translation: [as the translation from Hebrew]

Commissioned by: Association of Jews from Hungary, (Landsmanschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).

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Name/Title
Memorial to Hungary Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Date
1987
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Unknown
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Location
Israel | Holon (חולון)
| Eastern Alley of Holocaust Memorials, sector 11-9
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Unknown
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Unknown|
Period
Unknown
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Stone, concrete
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Author of description
Lital Spivak | 2025
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