Obj. ID: 52790
Memorials Działoszyce, Skalbmierz, and Kazimierza Wielka Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon, Bat Yam) Cemetery, Israel, 1980s/90s
Memorial Name:
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Działoszyce, Skalbmierz, and Kazimierza Wielka, Poland, perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Western Alley of the cemetery, along with dozens of other Holocaust memorials built by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and family members.
The memorial is a light-colored stone slab rounded at the top, it is set on a black marble base rounded at the front. On the back of the base, is a locked door that secures a small niche containing a scroll with the names of the Jews of Działoszyce, Skalbmierz, and Kazimierza Wielka, who perished in the Holocaust. On the black base, there is a stone bowl.
The metal fence surrounds the monument. The bowl and the fence were not a part of the monument at the unveiling ceremony [see photograph 36630 in The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House].
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
לזכר
קדושי קהילות
דז'יאלושיצה
סקאלבמירז'
קאז'ימיז'
והסביבה
מחוז קילצה פולין
שנספו בשואה
ע"י הגרמנים הנאצים
בשנים 1939-1945
הי"ד
ארץ אל תכסי דמם [איוב 16:18]
יום הזכרון כ"ה אלול
Translation: In memory/ of the martyrs of the communities/ of Działoszyce/ Skalbmierz/ Kazimierza/ and the surrounding areas/ in the Kielce district of Poland/ who perished in the Holocaust/ by the German Nazis/ in the years 1939-1945/ May God avenge their blood/ O earth, cover not thou my blood [Job 16:18] / Memorial Day 25th of Elul
On the back of the base, in Hebrew:
מגילת שמות הקדושים
Translation: Scroll of the Martyrs' Names
Commissioned by:
Families of victims.
sub-set tree: 
Height of the slab - 155 cm
Width of the base- 126 cm
For the 1990s photograph of the monument, see "ID 36630,"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36630.jpg.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Sefer yizkor shel ḳehilat Dzyaloshits ṿeha-sevivah (Tel-Aviv: ha-Menorah, 1973)
For the history of the Jewish communities and Holocaust history, see
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/dzia-oszyce-swietokrzyskie-voivodship-poland.1228, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/skalbmierz-swietokrzyskie-voivodeship-poland.1234, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/kazimierza-wielka-swietokrzyskie-voivodeship-poland.1232.