The more traditionally conceived memorial consists of a roughly worked stone stele with a carved outline of a menorah, into which the author has inserted a cast iron sculpture of the sven-armed candelabrum. The shape of the sculpture resembles a bush. The shaft and the branches of the candelabrum have a uniform cylindrical shape. At the bottom left corner of the stele there is an arched cut-out, while on the right side the same shape is mirrored by an engraved line. The piece of the stele framed by that line bears a finely engraved Czech majuscule inscription and the Hebrew epitaph tantzeva. A small vase of artificial stone is placed in the cut-out part of the stele. The whole object stands on a concrete base.

V TĚCHTO
MÍSTECH
STÁLA SYNAGOGA
VYPÁLENA NĚMECKOU
POLICIÍ V NOCI Z 19. NA 20.
BŘEZNA 1939. ŽIDOVŠTÍ OB-
ČANÉ MĚSTA BYLI DEPORTO-
VÁNI DO NACISTICKÝCH VY-
HLAZOVACÍCH TÁBORŮ, KDE
TÉMĚŘ VŠICHNI ZAHYNULI.
תנצב''ה

A competition was organized by the town of Vsetín and the Jewish Religious Community in Ostrava for the memorial of Jewish synagogue. According to the terms of reference, sculptors sent their designs by 12 March 1992. The winning design by local sculptor and designer Jiří Dorňák (*1963), a graduate of the University of Applied Arts in Zlín, was selected by the committee on 17 March 1992. The construction of the memorial was initiated by Erich Kulka (1911–1995), a Vsetín native and a Holocaust survivor, writer, historian and journalist. The synagogue memorial was unveiled on 25 October 1992 by representatives of the Vsetín Municipality and the Jewish Religious Community in Ostrava.
The object stands at the site of the former synagogue. In 1895, the Jewish Religious Association bought the house at 388 Štěpánská Street with adjacent land and had a neo-classical synagogue built on this site in 1897. Services were held there until 1939, when it was burnt down by members of the Schutzpolizei on the night of 19–20 March. The attackers, led by Lieutenant Jüngst, came by bus from the vicinity of Gliwice and Bytom from the territory of Nazi Germany. Over the next three years, the Jewish inhabitants of Vsetín were taken to Nazi concentration and extermination camps. Of the 81 members of the local Jewish community who lived in Vsetín in 1939, only five returned to the town after the end of World War II.