Obj. ID: 52864
Memorials Żuromin Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon, Bat Yam) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Żuromin, 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 tall dark uptight slab set on a light marble base, at the bottom of the slab, on each side there are memorial candle holders. At the front of the base, there are three pillars, connected to each other with a metal chain.
The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions that honor the memory of the community and list the Jewish victims by their last names. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size. One of the inscriptions indicates that the monument contains the ashes from the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Inscription:
On the front side of the slab, in Hebrew:
יד זכרון למשפחת קדושינו
מהעירה ז'ורומין - פולין שנספו בשואה 1945-1939
[רשימת קורבנות]
הי"ד ת' נ' צ' ב' ה' לזכור ולא לשכוח
יום הזכרון כ"ו חשון יום הגרוש מהעירה 8 בנוב' 1939
פה נטמן אפר קדושים ממשרפות אושביץ - בירקנאו
Translation: Memorial to the family of our martyrs / from the town of Żuromin, Poland, who perished in the Holocaust, 1939–1945 / [List of names] / May God avenge their blood / may their souls be bound in the bundle of life / To remember and never forget / Memorial Day: 26th of Cheshvan, Deportation Day from the town, Nov. 8, 1939 / Here lie the ashes of the holy from the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Commissioned by:
Holocaust survivors from Żuromin.
sub-set tree: 
Height of the base: 188 cm
Depth of the base: 87 cm
The memorial was built before in the late 1980s or early 1990s. In 1992, the Lanndsmannschaft Organisation published the memorial book, the image of the memorial in the Holon cemetery was published in this book as an illustration.
The editor of the book Elimelekh Szklar wrote in the Yiddish foreword to the memorial book: "With the help of the Dragon brothers, Mendl Braun and Yisroel, as well as Shlomoh Yitzhak Flatka in America, and with the material support of many Zurominers I erected a memorial matseyve [headstone] for those who perished. The matseyve stands in Holon group 15, area 4, 25th row, and all of the family names are engraved on it."
see https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/zuromin/zury001.html#Page13
Szklar [Shklar], Elimelech, Zhuromin—Polin, sipurah shel kehila she-nichrata (Tel Aviv: ?, 1992)
https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/zuromin/zuromin.html