Obj. ID: 44873
Jewish Funerary Art  Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Moisés Ville, Argentina, 1964

Who is Commemorated?

Six million Jews killed in the Holocaust

Description

This brick memorial takes the form of an obelisk, with a white cap crowned with a Magen David. Three plaques are affixed to it, two on the front and one on the left face. On the front beneath the plaques is a white plaque framing a blank metal plate.

The obelisk sits on a square of the same white material (plaster?) as the cap, and rising from the material in front of it are six rough candlesticks of the material. The plaster(?) square sits on a cube square base, attached to which are a plaster block with a flagpole and three half-circle steps leading up to it.

A short half-circle wall of bricks surrounds all sides of the monument save the front, which is then surrounded by four short brick columns connected by an iron chain.

Inscriptions

Upper Plaque in Spanish

1938-1988
Quienes salvamos nuestras
vidas del Holocausto nazi
rendimos homenaje a los
seis millones de víctimas
brutal e injustamente
asesinadas y por amor a la
vida clamamos: nunca más
genocidios!!!
Los inmigrantes judíos
sobrevivientes.
Moisés Ville 4 octubre de 1988

Translation: Those of us who saved our lives from the Nazi Holocaust pay homage to the six million brutally and unjustly murdered victims, and for the love of life, we cry out: may there never be more genocides!!! / The Jewish immigrants who survived. / Moises Ville October 4, 1988

Lower Plaque in Spanish:

En el trigésimo aniversario de la creación del
estado de Israel
La comunidad mutual israelita de
Moisés Ville e instituciones sionistas
locales rinden homenaje a todos aquellos
que entregaron sus vidas en defensa de la
dignidad y libertad del Pueblo Judío
tanto en los ghettos como así también en la
creación y preservación del Estado de Israel.
Moisés Ville, 21 de mayo de 1978.

Translation: On the thirtieth anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel, the Jewish mutual community of Moisés Ville and local Zionist institutions pay tribute to all those who gave their lives in defense of the dignity and freedom of the Jewish People both in the ghettos and in the creation and preservation of the State of Israel. / Moisés Ville, May 21, 1978.

Left-Side Plaque:

In Hebrew:

זכר נשמות הקדושים
אנשים נשים וטך
שנהרנו על קדוש השם

Translation: In memory of souls of the martyrs/ men, women, and children / that were killed for the sanctification of the name

In Spanish:

In memoriam
de nuestras víctimas
de violencia

Translation: In memory of our victims of violence

German:

Dem Andenken derer
die ihres Glaubens
willen starben

Translation: In memory of those that died for their faith

Commissioned by

Jewish community