Obj. ID: 56463
Memorials Memorial to Nowy Targ Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Nowy Targ, Poland, and the surrounding communities 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 consists of a light-colored stone slab with black granite cladding on its sides. Its upper and left edges are slanted. It stands on a tiered stone base that alternates between light-colored stone and black granite. At the foot of the monument, there are ten memorial candle structures.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:
לזכר
קהילות
פודהלה
נובי-טרג
ראבקה
זקופנה
יורדנוב
יבלונקה
שצבניצה
קרושצ'ינקו
צרני-דוניץ
הי"ד
Translation:
In memory of the Jewish communities of Podhale/Nowy Targ/Rabka/Zakopane/Jordanów/Jabłonka/
Szczawnica/Krościenko/Czarny Dunajec/May God avenge their blood.
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Nowy Targ, Poland (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
Height: 190 cm
Width: 120 cm
Depth: 26 cm
Base:
Width: 184 cm
Depth: 107 cm
Height: 25+4+11 cm
As can be seen on the website of the Ghetto Fighters' House Archives, the monument was originally without the granite cladding and was made entirely of light-colored stone—the slab and the base alike. The memorial candle structures were added later.
"Execution of Jews in Nowy Targ,"
The Map of Holocaust by Bullets, Yahad-In Unum, http://www.yahadinunum.orgwww.yahadmap.org/#village/nowy-targ-lesser-poland-voivodeship-poland.1506.
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=655.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Walzer-Fass, Michael (ed.), Sefer Novi-Targ and the Surrounding Areas: Zakopane, Czarny Dunajec, Rabka, Jordanów, Szczawnica, Krościenko, Jabłonka, Maków Podhalański ([Israel]: Association of Jews from Nowy Targ and the Surrounding Area in Israel, 1979)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a5ba1c80-66c4-0133-21ca-00505686d14e?_gl=1*1ti1efd*_gcl_au*OTczNjQ0Njk2LjE3MzgyMzQzMDg.*_ga*MTI5MzExNjk5NC4xNzM3MTA4MjAx*_ga_P03CNT7C31*MTc0MjI5NTIzNi4yNy4xLjE3NDIyOTU0MDUuMC4wLjA. (accessed March 18, 2025)
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 39127"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36636.jpg.