Obj. ID: 56170
Memorials Memorial to Radzymin victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Radzymin, Poland, 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 an upright slab, shaped like flames and featuring an image of a town in flames. It slab is set on a stone base and surrounded by four low stone pillars connected by metal chains.
A small stone plaque is placed on the base. The inscription indicates that the monument contains the ashes of the Jews, who perished in the Holocaust.
Inscription:
On the slab, in Hebrew:
זכור
את
קדושי
רדמיזין
הי"ד
שנספו בשואה
יום הזכרון
כ"ג בתשרי
Translation: Remember / the martyrs of Radzimin / may God avenge their blood / who perished in the Holocaust / Memorial Day / 23 Tishrei.
On the small plaque, in Hebrew:
פה נטמן
אפר
הקדושים
Translation: Here lie / the ashes / of the martyrs.
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Radzymin, (Landsmanschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
Depth of the slab: 20 cm
Width of the slab: 98 cm
Height of the base: 32 cm
Width of the base: 140 cm
Depth of the base: 115
Height of the column: 80 cm
Width of the column: 19 cm
Height of the base: 32 cm
Depth of the base: 115 cm
Width of the base: 140 cm
The Ghetto Fighters Archive website features a photograph of the memorial taken in the 1980s-90s. THe photographs show one more inscription in Hebrew:
פרויקט: שמואל שמיר-קושמירסקי
Translation: Project: Shmuel Shamir-Kushmirsky.
Shmuel Shamir-Kushmirsky was an illustrator of the memorial book published by the Association in 1973.
According to the memorial book published in 1973, the Association also commemorated the memory of Radzymin Jews in the Forest of the Martyrs (Yaar ha-Kedoshim) [Hel, 1973, p. 363-368].
The French Association of Jews from Radzymin built a memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Paris. [Hel, 1973, p. 369].
The neighboring memorial to the Jews from Ratne was built in 1980. Probably the memorial to Radzymin Jews in Holon cemetery was built around the same year.
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=1018.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Hel, Gershon (ed.), Memorial Book for the Community of Radzimin (Tel Aviv: Encyclopedia of the Diaspora Publishing, 1975)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b8dab980-42cc-0133-ff45-00505686a51c (accessed February 16, 2025)
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 39184"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36604.jpg.