Obj. ID: 56792
Memorials Memorial to Turiisk (Trisk) victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel, 1980s (?)
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Turiisk (Volhynia, Poland; today Turiisk, Ukraine), perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Northeastern Alley of the cemetery, among dozens of Holocaust memorials erected by landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives.
The monument is a sculpted stone stele with a relief of an arched motif resembling a synagogue window and a dove next to it. It stands on a rectangular base. The lower part of the stele has grey stone which resembles a wall. At the rear side of the monument there is a small plaque, and another metal plaque is attached to the side of the base. 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 scroll with the names of the community's victims and the ashes community's victims, who perished in the Holocaust.
Inscription:
On the stele, in Hebrew:
טריסק
וסביבתה
Translation: Turiisk (Trisk) and its' sorrundings
ואתה את דמנו אוסף בכדים"
נ. אלתרמן
יום ההשמדה וההרג י"ב באלול תש"ב
יום הסרת הלוט י"ב באלול תשמ"ה
פה טמון
אפר הקדושים
שמות הקדושים
Translation: "And You gather our blood in vessels, for there is none to gather it but You" / N. Alterman
Day of destruction and murder, 12 Elul [5702] / Day of the lifting of the veil, 12 Elul [5745]/Here lie the ashes of the holy martyrs / Names of the martyrs.
On the metal plaque, in Hebrew:
המצבה בוצעה ע"י
פרידמן נפתלי
קרית שאול 471594
Translation: The monument was executed by / Naftali Friedman / Kiryat Shaul 471594.
On the rear side of the monument, in Hebrew:
טריסק וסביבתה
Translation: The community of Turiisk (Trisk).
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Turiisk (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-Makom).
sub-set tree: 
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=453.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Livneh, Natan (ed.); Viner, Virah (illus.); Tonah, Akiva (illus.), Pinkas ha-kehilah Trisk: Sefer Yizkor (Tel-Aviv: Irgun Yotsʼe Trisk be-Yiśraʼel, 1975)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2a14e9d0-323d-0133-c744-58d385a7b928 (accessed December 16, 2025)