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Obj. ID: 8038
Jewish Funerary Art
  Holocaust Memorial and Common Grave of Reburied Jews from the Demolished Jewish Cemetery in the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Bajmok, Serbia, 1963

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Ungar, Olga, 2023

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

Jewish Victims of the Holocaust from Bajmok

Jewish residents of the Bajmok whose remains have been exhumed and transferred from the demolished Jewish cemetery to this common grave

Description

The monument is a square upright stele on an elongated rectangular two-stepped sandstone base. The memorial has a commemorative inscription in Serbo-Croatian.

Inscriptions

Serbo-Croatian

Na ovom mestu su sahranjeni
ostaci preneti sa Jevrejskog
groblja u Bajmoku.

U spomen žrtvama fašizma
ubijenih od nacista
1941-1945

Translation: The remains transferred from the Jewish cemetery in Bajmok were buried in this place. / In memory of the victims of fascism killed by the nazis 1941-1945.

Commissioned by

The Municipality of Bajmok 

Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Holocaust Memorial and Common Grave of Reburied Jews from the Demolished Jewish Cemetery in the Roman Catholic Cemetery | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Date
1963
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Serbia | Vojvodina | Bajmok (Бајмок)
| Franja Supila bb Street
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History/Provenance

The first Jewish family settled in Bajmok in 1774. At the beginning of the 20th century, 163 Jews lived in this village. The cemetery was founded in 1830, at today's address Gajeva Street bb. The synagogue was built in 1896 at the modern address, 29 JNA Street. There was also a Jewish school. 29 Jews survived the Holocaust. The synagogue was destroyed in 1948. A memorial plaque was unveiled in 2004 where the synagogue once stood.

The cemetery was closed and the graves were destroyed in 1963 when the decision was made to build a swimming pool in the cemetery territory. This was done with the permission of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Yugoslavia, with the obligation that the municipality of Bajmok erects a common grave in memory of the Jewish victims of World War II and the cemetery. The remains were exhumed and buried in this common grave memorial. There is no memorial plaque on the site of the destroyed cemetery.

The cemetery and the monument are maintained by the Subotica municipality. This monument has held no commemorations.

Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources

Gyetvai, Dávid. “A bajmoki zsidók egykori intézményei és kulturális hagyatéka,” Képes Ifjúság, 18.06.2015, https://www.kepesifi.com/hu/1041/kmv/861/KMV-%E2%80%93-%C3%89rtekez%C5%91-pr%C3%B3za-1-hely--Gyetvai-D%C3%A1vid.htm (accessed June 11, 2023)

"Memorials in Bajmok," Locations (Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials Project), https://www.vhmproject.org/en-US/Locations/Memorials/7 (accessed June 11, 2023)

Mojzes, Antal. A zsidók élete és kiveszése Bajmokon, Bácsország, Vajdasági honismereti szemle, millenniumi szám. Subotica: Grafoprodukt Kiadó, 2000.

https://www.vhmproject.org/en-US/Locations/Memorials/7

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Author of description
Olga Ungar | 2023
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Computer Reconstruction
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Section Head
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Language Editor
Adam Frisch | 2023
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