The monument is devoted to Jews from the town, and near vicinity, killed by the Nazis during World War II. It was unveiled on 26th September 2006 and is situated on a square at the intersection of Niecała, Solna Góra and Kowalska streets, close to the building in which the ghetto administration operated.
The idea to commemorate Bochnia’s Jews who were victims of the Nazis came from Miriam Romm, and Rachel Kollender the chairperson of the Community of Bochnia’s Jews in Israel during the international conference organized jointly by the Municipal Council and Bochnia’s branch of the National Archive in Cracow. The conference took place in 2003, the year of the 750th anniversary of granting Bochnia the town charter.
The monument was created by a famous Israeli sculptor Yael Artsi and funded by the Community of Bochnia Jews which also covered the costs of transporting the statue to Bochnia.
The obelisk displays tablets with the Ten Commandments, one of which is destroyed to symbolize the fact that holocaust broke the fifth commandment “Thou shalt not kill”.
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