Obj. ID: 52807
  Memorials Memorial to Lipcani Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel, 1988
Memorial Name:
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Lipcani Targ, Bessarabia, Romania (today Moldova), 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 relatives.
The monument is a dark slab shaped like the Hebrew letter "Lamed" set on the base. The base initially had metal plaques with the names of the Jews of Lipcani, who perished in the Holocaust [see the photograph in the Archive of Ghetto Fighters].
The monument was renovated at a later stage, probably in 1988. Four additional walls were added to the base. The walls and the front of the base bear dedicatory inscriptions and the names of the Jews of Lipcani, who perished in the Holocaust.
Inscriptions:
On the dark central slab, in Hebrew:
גל-עד
לזכר קדושי
ליפקני-בסרביה
אנשים נשים וטף
שהומתו בצורות אכזריות
בשואה האיומה לעם היהודי
במלחמת העולם השניה
על ידי הנאצים הגרמנים ועוזריהם הרומנים
נדרנו הנדר: "לזכור את הכול
לזכור - ודבר לא לשכוח" (א. שלונסקי)
יוצאי ליפקני בישראל והתפוצות
Translation: A monument / In memory of the martyrs / Lipcany-Bessarabia / Men, women, and children / who were killed in cruel ways / during the terrible Holocaust of the Jewish people / in World War II / by the German Nazis and their Romanian collaborators / We vowed the vow: "To remember everything / to remember - and to forget nothing" (A. Shlonsky) / Survivors of Lipcany in Israel and the Diaspora.
On the bottom right of the dark slab, in the shape of the letter "Lamed", in Hebrew:
כאן גנוז אפר קדושים
Translation: Here are interred the ashes of martyrs.
On the left wall, on the front side, in Hebrew:
אות כבוד והוקרה
לפעילי קהילת יוצאי ליפקני (בסרביה) בארץ ובארה"ב בהקדישם ממרצם
זמנם וכספם להקמת המפעלים המפוארים:
שיכון לעולים יוצאי ליפקני
קרן גמילות חסדים
עזרה לנזקקים בראשית צעדיהם בארץ
שליחת חבילות מזון ובגדים לערירים מליפקני
עזרה לפליטי השואה מעירנו להשבת פיצויים מגרמניה
הקמת בית [בלתי קריא] גינזבורד ובו משרד הארגון
מוזיאון ליפקני
בית כנסת
מועדון לקשישים
הוצאת ספר ליפקני וספרים של סופרים יוצאי ליפקני
מעון ויצ"ו לילדים
נטיעת 300 עצים ביער הרצל להנצחת זכר קרבנות השואה
הקמת גל-עד לנספים בשואת מלחמת העולם השניה
כבוד והוקרה [בלתי קריא] ותרמו בהקמת המפעלים לדורי-דורות
תש"ח 1948
תשמ"ח 1988
Translation: A token of honor and appreciation / To the activists of the Lipcani (Bessarabia) community in Israel and the USA for dedicating their energy, time, and money to the establishment of the grand enterprises: / Housing for Lipcany immigrants / Charity fund / Assistance to the needy at the beginning of their steps in Israel / Sending food and clothing packages to lonely people from Lipcani / Assistance to Holocaust refugees from our city to obtain compensation from Germany / Establishment of the [unreadable] Ginzburg House with the organization's office / Lipcani Museum / Synagogue / Senior citizens club / Publication of the Lipcani book and books by authors from Lipcani / WIZO daycare center for children / Planting 300 trees in the Herzl Forest to commemorate the Holocaust victims / Establishment of a monument for those who perished in the Holocaust of World War II / Honor and appreciation [unreadable] and contributed to the establishment of the enterprises for generations / 5708 1948 /5748 1988.
On the left wall, on the back side, in Hebrew:
[names]
On the right wall, on the back side, in Hebrew:
[names]
On the memorial candle holder, in Hebrew:
נתרם ע"י מש' דרסנר וגולדשטיין
Translation: Donated by the Dresner and Goldstein families.
On the additional walls and base of the monument, are metal plaques inscribed with the victims' names in Hebrew.
Commissioned by:
Holocaust survivors from Lipcani.
sub-set tree: 
Total width at the base: 211 cm
Height of the central section: 234 cm
Height of the side sections: 121.5 cm
Width of the central section: 139 cm
Width of each side section: 42 cm
Depth of the base: 152 cm
"Execution of Jews in Lipcani,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, https://www.yahadmap.org/en/#village/lipcani-briceni-moldova.1029.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see "Lipcani Targ,"
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622436.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Zilberman-Silon, Mosheh, and Berger-Tamir, Yaʻaḳov, Kehilat Lipkani: Sefer Zikaron (Tel Aviv: Irgun Yotseʼ Lipḳani be-Yisra'el, 1963)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/118fda30-6c60-0133-1885-00505686d14e (accessed July 22, 2024)
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 36608"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36608.jpg.