Obj. ID: 54343 Memorial to Jewish victims of the Holocaust by Adath Israel Congregation in the Baron de Hirsh Jewish Cemetery in Montreal, Canada, 1952
Name of Monument
No official name
What/Who is commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust
Description
The stone monument is situated off a central path in the cemetery. It consists of two gray granite blocks. There is a rectangular horizontal base on which it's a tall rectangular stele-type inscribed slab. The sides of this vertical element are cut back very slightly near the top to create the effect of side panels. The top of the monument is also cut back slightly to create a stepped appearance, and the very top is carved in the shape of a very low-hipped roof.
On the front of the monument is the dedicatory inscription in Hebrew and English; the Hebrew above followed by the English. The bottom half of the monument's face is inscribed with the image of a flame burning in an oil memorial lamp. On the back is inscribed a Magen David.
Inscriptions
In Hebrew:
יזכר אלהים
את מליוני קדושי עם ישראל
שנרצחו עי הנאצים הרשעים
בכל מיני מיתות אכזריות
לא יכופר הדם לעולם ה'י'ד [השם ינקום דמם]
Translation: God will remember the martyrs of the people of Israel who were murdered by the evil Nazis in all kinds of horrible deaths. The blood will never be redeemed. God revenge their blood.
In English:
IN MEMORIAM
TO THE MARTYRDOM AND HEROISM
OF THE MILLIONS OF OUR BRETHREN
WHO PERISHED
AT THE HANDS OF NAZI TYRANNY
1939-1945.
THIS MEMORIAL WAS CONSECRATED BY
THE ADATH ISRAEL CONGREGATION.
SEPTEMBER 1952 אלול תשיב
Commissioned by
Adath Israel Congregation
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At the turn of the 20th century, as more Jewish immigrants arrived in Montreal the city’s small middle-class Jewish Community needed to meet the burial needs of new, mostly poor, arrivals who had little affiliation with the local congregations. Out of this crisis, the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery was established on an undeveloped expanse of swampland, just outside the city. The Baron de Hirsch Cemetery was planned in 1904 and officially opened in July 1905. The oldest gravestone is dated December 1904 (eight months before the cemetery opened).
The Orthodox Adath Israel Congregation (now Adath Israel–Poale Zedek–Anshei Ozeroff Congregation) was formed in 1930 and opened its imposing first purpose-built synagogue in 1940 in the city of Outremont (now a borough of Montreal). The congregation moved to Hampstead, Quebec, a suburb of Montreal, in 1980.
The Baron de Hirsch Cemetery includes 16 memorial monuments to Holocaust victims. The Adath Israel monument is one of the earliest.
“History,” Baron de Hirsch - Back River Cemeteries., https://barondehirsch.com/en/who-we-are/history/ (accessed June 13, 2024)
“Holocaust Memorials of Canada en Souvenir Eternel,” Museum of Family History., https://www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/hmc-02.htm (accessed June 13, 2024)