Cmentarz ?ydowski (in English)
in Polish
The town is in Kielce region at 51?08N 20?52E, 144 km from Warsaw. The cemetery is on Lyzwy Street near the municipal cemetery. The unlocked cemetery key [sic] is at the town office above. There is no caretaker.
The earliest known Jewish community possibly was 1891 when the cemetery was established, but definitely 1923.
1921 Jewish population was 1590, 19.5%. Buried here was Zundel Kahanel-April 11, 1953, Dr. M. Sc. The last known Orthodox, Conservative, or Progressive Jewish burial was 1942 until the 1953 burial.
The urban flat land, separate but near other cemeteries, has no sign, but has Jewish symbols on the gate or wall. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is entirely closed with a continuous fence and a locking gate. The size of the cemetery is and was before WWII 1.24 ha. 20-100 gravestones, all in original condition with less than 25% toppled or broken, date from the 19th(?) and 20th centuries, with the earliest possibly 1915(?).
The limestone or sandstone finely smoothed and inscribed stones or flat stones with carved relief decoration have Hebrew, Yiddish and Polish inscriptions. Some have traces of painting on their surfaces. There is a special memorial monument to Holocaust victims but no known mass graves.
The municipality owns property used for cemetery. Properties adjacent are agricultural, residential, and municipal cemetery. Occasionally, organized Jewish group tours, organized individual tours, private visitors, and local residents stop. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. Jewish groups abroad re-erected stones and fixed the wall and the gate in 1977. Pollution and incompatible development are slight threats. Vegetation is a constant problem disturbing stones.
?ród?o: http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/e-europe/pol-s.html
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