Obj. ID: 52841
Memorials Skierniewice Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon, Bat Yam) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Skierniewice, 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 memorial is a large dark boulder inscribed with the name of the community in golden letters and set on a white stone pedestal. The monument is surrounded by 6 pillars, attached with chains.
Inscription:
On the boulder, in Hebrew:
קדושי
סקרנביץ
Translation: Martyrs/of Skierniewice.
On the pedestal, in Hebrew:
שנספו בשואה תרצ"ט - תש"ה
הי"ד
עליה לבניכם ספרו
ובניכם לבניהם
ובניהם לדור אחר
(יואל)
פה טמון אפר קדושינו
Translation: Who perished in the Holocaust 5699-5705 [1939-1945] / May God avenge their blood / Tell your children about it / and let your children tell their children / and their children to another generation/ (Joel) [1:3] / Here lie the ashes of our holy ones.
Commissioned by:
Holocaust survivors from Skierniewice.
sub-set tree: 
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Encyclopedia of the ghettos (Yad Vashem project) , https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/he/research/ghettos_encyclopedia/ghetto_details.asp?cid=753.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Perlow, Itzjok, Seyfer Skernyevits: In Memory of the Destroyed Holy Community (Tel Aviv: Irgun Yots'e Skernivits be-Yisrael, 1955)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7b881b00-39f4-0133-956c-00505686a51c (accessed September 16, 2024)
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 46698" The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House,
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/55108.jpg.