Obj. ID: 58000
Memorials Holocaust memorial in Tzula, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Name of Monument
Suza/Tear Monument
What/Who is commemorated
All citizens of Tuzla who were victims of the Holocaust.
Description
The memorial sculpture is located on the site of the former railway station from which Jews and others were deported to death camps. A tall, smooth metal sculpture in the shape of a teardrop sits atop a rough stone base, seemingly attached at only a single point, so the teardrop seems to float. An inscribed stone plaque with a dedicatory inscription in Bosnian is set against the sculpture base.
Inscriptions
In Bosnian:
Ovdje je bila kapija željezničke stanice u Tuzli. Kroz tu kapiju nacisti su od 1941. do 1944. godine odveli Jevreje, Rome, Bošnjake, Hrvate, Srbe i druge građane Tuzle u logore smrti širom Europe. Vječito ćemo žaliti za njima i nadati se da se genocid nigdje i nikome neće ponoviti.
Translation: This was the gate of the Tuzla railway station. Through this gate, the Nazis took Jews, Roma, Bosniaks, Croats, Serbs, and other citizens of Tuzla to death camps across Europe from 1941 to 1944. We will mourn them forever and hope that genocide will never happen again anywhere and to anyone.
Commissioned by
municipality?
sub-set tree: 
| Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tuzla Canton Turalibegova bb, Tuzla Grad 75000 Bosnia & Herzegovina
Metal (sculpture)
The memorial was erected to remember local victims of the Holocaust, who were deported from this spot. The monument was built on the site of the former railway station from where victims were deported to concentration and death camps. From this place, 273 of the 347 Jews of Tuzla were deported. Only 19 survived and returned to the city.
The monument was repaired in 2020.
Also commemorated in ceremonies here is the Tuzla Jewish heroine, Gina Herman, the youngest Tuzla partisan and Holocaust victim. Because she was visiting a neighbor, 11-year-old Regina "Gina" Herman survived a raid in which the Nazis broke into her house and arrested her entire family for deportation. The neighbor, Ana Jagić, who then successfully hid her there until the liberation of Tuzla in 1943 at which time Gina, then 13 years old, immediately joined the ambulance corps of the 27th Eastern Bosnian Division of the NOVJ. She went through many battles, but near the end of the war she was arrested by the SS near the town of Trnove, from where she was transported to the Sajmište camp near Belgrade. From here, her fate is certain, but she is presumed to have been executed. A street in Tuzla is named after her.
Omerbegović, Damir, “U čast heroini Tuzle Gini Herman,” Prometej (November 17, 2018), https://www.prometej.ba/clanak/povijest/u-cast-heroini-tuzle-gini-herman-3676 (accessed September 2, 2025)