Img. ID: 173471
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Commemorated?
Jews from Čakovec murdered in Auschwitz
Description:
The monument is situated near the entrance to the cemetery, on the southern side of the entrance plaza. It occupies the plot of a prominent family grave adjacent to two additional prominent family graves, which consist of a wall and a roof supported by two columns.
The monument consists of a clay statue on a pedestal. The statue presents a medieval executioner ("a Nazi hangman," according to Etz-Haim, p. 164) with a knife in his right hand. With his left hand, he holds the hand of a naked woman, kneeling at his feet, who holds a baby in her other hand. The base of the statue features a scratched date: 21.V.1944 – the day when the Čakovec Jews deported to Auschwitz were murdered there (Etz-Haim, p. 135).
A marble plaque on the monument’s pedestal features a dedicatory inscription in Croatian, preceded by the Hebrew abbreviation פ"נ (here is buried), though nobody is buried under the monument (Etz-Haim, p. 164).
Inscriptions
On the base of the statue:
21.V.1944
On the pedestal:
פ' נ'
U spomen
našim dragim
pokojnicima
1941 – 1945
Translation: Here is buried. In memory of our dear deceased, 1941 - 1945.
Commissioned by
The Jewish Community of Čakovec