Obj. ID: 52829
Memorials Memorial to Pilica victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Pilica, 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 a black central plaque, inscribed in Hebrew, with an image of the community's synagogue. The plaque is connected on both sides to stone pillars. On each stone pillar, there is a small plaque. On the right pillar, the plaque has a Hebrew inscription and on the left plaque, there is an image of a menorah.
The monument stands on a stepped base. On both sides of the monument, at the front, there are short stone pillars with Hebrew inscriptions. At the base of the monument, there is a memorial candle holder. According to a photo from the Ghetto House archives, this candle holder originally had an urn on top of it. Next to the candle holder, on the top of the base, there is an inscription in Hebrew.
On the back of the memorial, text in Yiddish is inscribed.
Inscription:
On the central plaque, in Hebrew:
לזכר קדושי קהילת
פילץ
שנספו בשואה
הי"ד
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of the Pilica community/ who perished in the Holocaust/ may God avenge their blood.
On the right plaque, in Hebrew:
על
אלה
אני
בוכיה
איכה
Translation: For/ these/ things/ I weep [Lamentations 1:16]
On the right short pillar, in Hebrew:
מגילת
הקדושים
Translation: Scroll of the martyrs.
On the left short pillar, in Hebrew:
אפר
הקדושים
Translation: Ashes of the martyrs.
On the top of the base, in Hebrew:
יום הזכרון
כ"ג אלול
Translation: Memorial day, 23 of Elul.
On the back of the memorial, in Yiddish:
צים אייביקן אנדענק
פין די געמארדעטע יידן אין פיליץ
Translation: In eternal memory/ of the murdered Jews of Piłica.
Commissionet by: Holocaust survivors from Pilica.
sub-set tree: 
On the central plaque, underneath the image of the synagogue, in Hebrew:
דני דביקו
Translation: Dani Daviko.
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 36556"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36556.jpg.
Tsanin, M. , Tel Olam: A Journey Across a Hundred Destroyed Communities (Tel Aviv: HaMenorah, 1962), 241-244.