Obj. ID: 56147
Memorials Żółkiewka Victims Monument in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Żółkiewka, 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 tone slab, set on a stone base. In font, three short stone columns are connected with a metal chain.
The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions honoring the community's memory. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size. Inscriptions indicate that the monument contains the ashes of the community's victims, who perished in the Holocaust.
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
לזכר קדושי
זילקבקה
מחוז לובלין והסביבה
שנספו ברובם במחנות ההשמדה
בשואה תרצ"ט -תש"ה
1939-1945
הי"ד
יום הזכרון כ"א חשון
Translation: In memory of the martyrs of / Żółkiewka / Lublin District and its surroundings / most of whom perished in extermination camps / during the Holocaust 5699–5705/ 1939–1945 / May God avenge their blood (HY"D)/ Memorial Day: 21 Cheshvan.
On the small stone slab, in Hebrew:
פה נטמן אפר קדושינו
שנספו בשואה
רובם במחנה השמדה
סוביבר
Translation: Here lie / the ashes of our holy ones / who perished in the Holocaust / most of them in the Sobibor extermination camp.
Commissioned by: Association of Jews from Żółkiewka, (Landsmanschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
Width of the slab: 96 cm
Depoth of the base: 80 cm
Width of the base: 88 cm
Height of the base: 70 cm
Height of the slab (without the base) 167 cm
Height of the column: 57 cm
Width of the column: 14 cm
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 39083"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36525.jpg.