Obj. ID: 56164
Memorials Memorial to Divin (Dzivin, Dywin) victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Divin (Dzivin, Dywin), Poland (today Belarus), who perished in the Holocaust.
Description:
The monument is located in the Southeastern Alley of the cemetery, along with dozens of other Holocaust memorials built by Landsmannschaft organizations, survivors, and relatives.
The monument is a stone slab with low stone pillars beside it, connected by a metal chain, with small memorial candle holders on two of them. One of the low pillars has a small stone plaque with the name of the community, probably, it contained the scroll the the names.
The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions honoring the community's memory. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size.
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
דיווין
לזכר קהילת דיווין הקדושה
שנספתה בשואה בידי הצורר
הנאצי ועוזריו האוקראינים
כ"ח תמוז תש"א
ונקתי דמם לא נקתי
יואל ד' כ"א
Translation: Divin / In memory of the holy community of Dyvin / murdered in the Shoah (Holocaust) by the Nazi oppressor / and his Ukrainian collaborators / 28 Tammuz 5701 / Their unavenged blood shall be avenged / Joel 4:21.
On the small plaque, in Hebrew:
דיווין
Translation: Divin.
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Divin (Dzivin, Dywin), (Landsmanschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
Width of the slab: 120 cm
Depth of the slab: 18 cm
Height of the base: 22 cm
Width of the column: 18 cm
Height of the column: 70 cm
Depth of the column: 19.5 cm
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=247.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Untold Stories - Murder Sites of Jews in Occupied Territories of the USSR (Yad Vashem project), https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/untold-stories/community/14622228.
For the Holocaust history, see
Il'ya, Al'tman (ed.), Kholokost na territorii SSSR (Moskva: ROSSPEN, 2011), p. 271.