Obj. ID: 52824
Memorials Krynki Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon, Bat Yam) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Krynki, 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 consists of an upright stone slab set on the stepped base. The slab is chiseled and rounded. The central inscription is embossed and carved more deeply into the stone than the other inscriptions. The monument is surrounded by fourshort columns connected with a metal chain.
Inscriptions:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
לזכר קדושי
קהילת
קרינקי
שנספו בשנות השואה
בפולין
זכרם לא ישכח
הי"ד
Translation: In memory of the martyrs / of the Krynki community / who perished during the Holocaust / in Poland / Their memory will never be forgotten / May God avenge their blood.
Commissioned by:
Landsmannschaft organisation of Krynki.
sub-set tree: 
Length of base: 73 cm
Depth of the base: 81 cm
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Rabin, Dov, Pinkas Krinki (Tel-Aviv: Be-hotsaʼat ha-Irgunim shel yotsʼe Krinki bi-medinat Yisraʼel uva-tefutsot, 1970), https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/30129f40-7525-0133-6825-00505686d14e (accessed July 31, 2024)