Obj. ID: 50136 Holocaust Memorial at the Location of the Former Ghetto in Subotica, Serbia, 1994
Memorial Name
No official name
Who is Comemmorated?
The deported Jews of Subotica
Description
The monument is an upright stele with an oval top and rounded shoulders, placed on a three-stepped platform. It is made of grey stone. Both sides of the monument feature a Magen David and the same commemorative inscriptions in five languages; Serbian, Croatian, English, Hungarian, and Hebrew. The Serbian and Croatian inscriptions are identical, but the English, Hungarian, and Hebrew inscriptions all have variations.
Inscriptions
Serbian
Овде је 1944. године био јеврејски гето одакле су 16. јуна
фашисти депортовали 4000 Јевреја наших недужних суграђана.
Грађани Суботице 16. јуна 1994.
Translation: Here was the Jewish ghetto, from which 4,000 Jewish fellow citizens were deported by the fascists. / Citizens of Subotica June 16, 1994.
Croatian
Ovdje je 1944. godine bio jevrejski geto odakle su 16. lipnja
fašisti deportovali 4000 Jevreja naših nedužnih sugrađana.
Građani Subotice 16. lipnja 1994.
Translation: Here was the Jewish ghetto, from which 4,000 Jewish fellow citizens were deported by the fascists. / Citizens of Subotica June 16, 1994.
Hungarian
Itt volt 1944-ben a gettó, ahonnan a fasiszták június 16-ától
4000 ártatlan zsidó polgártársunkat deportálták.
Szabadka polgárai. 1994 június 16.
Translation: Here was the ghetto in 1944, from which the fascists deported 4,000 of our innocent Jewish fellow citizens starting from June 16. / Citizens of Subotica. June 16, 1994
English
This place was the Jewish ghetto in 1944 from where on June 16
the deportation of our innocent Jewish fellow citizens was started by the fascists
Citizens of Subotica June 16, 1994
Hebrew
להנצחת הגטו היהודי ולזכרם של 4000 יהודים
חפים מפשע שנלקחו על ידי הפאשיסטים ב 16 ביוני 1944
תושבי סובוטיצה
16 ביוני 1994
Translation: In commemoration of the Jewish ghetto and to the memory of 4000 innocent Jews who were taken by the fascists on June 16, 1944 / Residents of Subotica / June 16, 1994
Commissioned by
The Municipality of Subotica
8 image(s)
The monument was unveiled on 16 June 1994 on the site of the ghetto commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the Subotica ghetto, and the deportation of the Subotica Jews. On June 16, 1944, the Jews of Subotica were taken from this ghetto to larger ghettos in southern Hungary, and from there to concentration camps, mainly to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Commemoration ceremonies have been annually held by this monument on the anniversary of its unveiling.
The memorial is maintained by The Municipality of Subotica
Duranci, Bela and Vera Gabrić Počuča, Javni spomenici opštine Subotica, (Subotica: Međuopštinski zavod za zaštitu spomenika kulture, 2001)
"Memorials in Subotica,” Locations (Vojvodina Holocaust Memorials Project), https://www.vhmproject.org/en-US/Locations/Memorials/22 (accessed June 28, 2023)
"Obeležena 73. godišnjica deportacije subotičkih Jevreja," Subotica.info, https://www.subotica.info/2017/06/16/obelezena-73-godisnjica-deportacije-subotickih-jevreja (accessed June 28, 2023)