Obj. ID: 56735
Memorials Memorial to Chodel Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel, 1980s (?)
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Chodel, Poland (today Chodel, Poland), who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Eastern Alley of the cemetery, among dozens of Holocaust memorials erected by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives.
The memorial is a tall, light-colored stone slab with a triangular top, resembling an obelisk. It stands on a stone base and has a stone cube form on each side. The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions honoring the community's memory. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size. Inscriptions indicate that the monument contains the ashes community's victims, who perished in the Holocaust.
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
לזכר
קדושי קהילת
חודלה
והסביבה
מחוז לובלין
שנספו בשואה
הי"ד
Translation: In memory / of the martyrs / of the community / of Chodel / and surroundings / Lublin district / who perished / in the Holocaust / may God avenge their blood.
On the base, in Hebrew:
כאן טמון אפר הקדושים
Translation: Here lie the ashes of the martyrs.
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Chodel (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
"Execution of Jews in Chodel," The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum,
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/#village/chodel-lublin-poland.1561.
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=399.