Obj. ID: 42646 Memorial plaque on the synagogue in Trenčín, Slovakia, 1990s(?)
Who is Commemorated?
1573 Jews from the Trenčín region killed in the Holocaust
Description:
A plaque in the shape of the Tablets of the Law is affixed to the synagogue wall. A Slovak language commemorative inscription in bronze letters commemorates Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the Slovak uprising against the Nazis (SNP). A stylized relief of a menorah is set above the inscription. A stone bracket protrudes beneath the plaque from which flowers are sometimes hung.
Inscription
Na pamiatki 1573 Židovskẏch
občanov Trenčianskeho okresu
Umučenych v koncentračnẏch
Táboroch a padlẏch v SNP
V rokoch 1939-1945
Translation: In memory of 1573 Jewish citizens of the Trenčín district tortured in concentration camps and fallen in the SNP [Slovak National Uprising] in the years 1939-1945
2 image(s)
bronze
Borský, Maroš, Synagogue Architecture in Slovakia: A Memorial Landscape of a Lost Community (Bratislava: Jewish Heritage Foundation - Menorah, 2007)
"Trenčín – Synagogue," The Slovak Jewish Heritage Center, http://www.slovak-jewish-heritage.org/151.html (accessed December 26, 2021)