Obj. ID: 26430
Jewish Funerary Art  Holocaust memorial at the Kozala cemetery in Rijeka, Croatia

To the main object: Jewish section of the Kozala cemetery in Rijeka, Croatia

Memorial Name

No official name

Who is Commemorated?

 Victims of Nazism and "those who died for freedom."

Description

This memorial is made up of two elements; a hexagonal upright slab, and a pillar, both made of concrete. It sits in a rectangular plaza of stone square tiles, with a large dirt patch in front of the upright slab.

The upright slab is engraved on both faces with a Magen David and sits on a small stone block that has a stone plaque with a Hebrew inscription on it. 

The pillar has five vertical faces. Rectangular niches are carved out of it on all five sides, which are filled with black metal plaques that have the names of Holocaust victims and their ages embossed on them. Bands of small menorot appear in the lower part of each plaque.

Above these niches are inscriptions in Croatian, Italian, and Hebrew: a dedication and a phrase "The memory of the victims is a warning to the living."

Inscriptions

On the pillar:

Croatian:

Žrtve nacizma
1941 – 1945

Translation: Victims of Nazism, 1941-1945

Croatian and Italian:

Palima
za slobodu
ai caduti
per la liberta

Translation: To those who died for freedom

In Hebrew: 

לקדושים הזכרה
- לחיים הזהרה

Translation: The memory of the victims is a warning to the living

Croatian:

Uspomena
na žrtve
opomena
živima

Translation: The memory of the victims is a warning to the living

Italian:

A ricordo dei
martiri
monito ai
vivi

Translation: The memory of the martyrs is a warning to the living

On a stone plaque on the upright slab:

"ירושלים לבניה בוניה"
יד ושם רשות הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה
הר הזיכרון, ירושלים

Translation: "Jerusalem to its builders" Yad Vashem - Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, the Mount of Remembrance, Jerusalem.

Commissioned by

The Jewish community of Rijeka [to be confirmed]