Obj. ID: 52817
Memorials Ostrów Mazowiecka Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon, Bat Yam) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland, who 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 reddish bolder with an inscription in Hebrew; the boulder is surrounded by smaller stones and set on the platform. The monument is surrounded by a metal fence, ornamented with the Stars of David.
Inscription:
לזכר קדושי קהילת אוסטרוב-מזוב שניספו בשואה
Translation: In memory of/ the martyrs of the Ostrów Mazowiecka community/ who perished in the Holocaust.
Commissioned by:
Holocaust survivors from Ostrów Mazowiecka.
sub-set tree: 
Height of the boulder: 160 cm
Height of the base: 55 cm
Total width of the base: 171 cm
Depth of the base: 155 cm
The monument was erected after 1966. Since it is not mentioned in the community's Yizkor book (memorial book).
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Levin, Yehudah Leyb, Osṭrov Mazovyetsḳ (Jerusalem: Yad Yahadut Polin, 1965)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1173cce0-540c-0133-cb7b-00505686d14e (accessed July 28, 2024)
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Roth, Marcus, "The Murder of the Jews of Ostrów Mazowiecka in November 1939," in Microhistories of the Holocaust, eds. Claire Zalc and Tal Bruttmann (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016), 227-241., https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781785333675-015/html (accessed August 1, 2024)
For the photograph from the 1980s-90s, see "ID 36568,"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36568.jpg.