Obj. ID: 56473
Memorials Memorial to Sochaczew Victims of the Holocaust in the Southern Tel Aviv (Holon) Cemetery, Israel
Memorial Name:
No official name.
Who is Commemorated?
The Jews of Sochaczew, 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 a rough, natural-looking edge. It stands on a wide dark stone base, on top of which rests a stone cube with a recessed niche on its front side, intended for memorial candles. The monument bears Hebrew inscriptions honoring the community’s memory. The community name is emphasized through the use of a larger font size. As seen on the Ghetto Fighters' House Archive website, the original inscriptions indicated that the monument contains a scroll listing the names of the Jewish community’s victims.
Inscription:
On the main slab, in Hebrew:
Translation:
In memory of the martyrs of the Jewish community of Sochaczew/and the surrounding area/May God avenge their blood/
Memorial Day:/22 Elul.
On the base, in Hebrew:
(יחזקאל ל"ז י"ב)
Translation:
I will bring you up/from your graves, My people/and I will bring you/to the land of Israel.[Ezekiel 37:12]
Commissioned by:
Association of Jews from Sochaczew, Poland (Landsmannschaft, Irgun Yotsei ha-makom).
sub-set tree: 
As seen on the Ghetto Fighters' House Archive website, originally, the stone cube on the base of the monument was intended to serve as a storage space for scrolls listing the names of the victims, as indicated by a metal door that once covered it and is now missing.
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=680.
For the history of the community and Holocaust history, see
Shtayn, A. S. and Vaysman, Gavriel (eds.), Sochaczew notebook (Jerusalem: Irgun Sokhaczew in Israel, 1962)., https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/0598c600-3a18-0133-f68f-00505686a51c (accessed March 25, 2025)
For the photograph of the memorial done in the 1980s or the 1990s, see, "ID 39135"
The Archive of Ghetto Fighters' House, https://infocenters.co.il/gfh/multimedia/Photos/Idea/36631, א.jpg.