Historic Jewish Cemetery

Old Jewish Cemetery [Stary Cmentarz Zydowski] in Wroclaw, Poland

Quiet scenes from a quintessential resting place.

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KRAKOW (Cracow), EXPLORING the historic OLD JEWISH CEMETERY (Poland) ✡️

SUBSCRIBE: - Let's visit Krakow's oldest Jewish cemetery, one of Europe's oldest and most graphic in the beautiful city of Krakow. Vic Stefanu, vstefanu@yahoo.com. Kraków, also Cracow or Krakow is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River (Polish: Wisła) in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century.
Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union.[8] Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
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WARSAW: EXPLORING priceless art and statues in POWĄZKI CEMETERY (POLAND)

SUBSCRIBE: - Let's visit the fascinating Powązki Cemetery which is a historic cemetery located in the Wola district, western part of Warsaw, Poland. It is the most famous cemetery in the city, and one of the oldest, having been established in 1790. The necropolis features graves of many illustrious individuals from Polish history, including those interred along the Avenue of Notables (Aleja Zasłużonych) created in 1925. It estimated that over 1 million people have been buried at Powązki.
Poland is the sixth most populous member state of the European Union. Poland's capital and largest metropolis is Warsaw. Other major cities include Kraków, Łódź, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Lithuania, and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast to the north, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
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Jewish cemetery - Wrocław - Cmentarz Żydowski a jesień polska i złota

30.10.2010, w przeddzień Święta Zmarłych, zwiedziłem założony w 1856 r. Cmentarz Żydowski przy ul Ślężnej we Wrocławiu (najstarszy nagrobek pochodzi z 1203 r)

Common Ground: Polish Volunteers Caring for Jewish Cemeteries

There are over 1200 abandoned Jewish cemeteries in Poland. Pope John Paul called these sacred places for both Christians and Jews that should bring Poles and Jews together. Here are brief profiles of five Poles who have volunteered to care for one or more Jewish cemeteries.

Old Jewish Cemetery, Breslau/Wroclaw, 2011

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Historic Jewish Cemetery in Łódź, Poland.

The Łódź Jewish Cemetery, also known as the New Jewish Cemetery, was once the largest Jewish cemetery in Poland and one of the largest in the world. Located in the city of Łódź on Bracka Street, the necropolis was opened in 1892 and occupies around 44 hectares of land. The cemetery contains from 180,000 to 230,000[ marked graves, as well as mass graves of victims of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto and the Holocaust. From 1893 to 1896, the basic construction of the necropolis was completed under the supervision of well-known architect Adolf Zeligson. (Wikipedia)

Today over a hundred of historical gravesites have been declared historical monuments and are in various stages of restoration. The mausoleum of Izrael Poznański is perhaps the largest Jewish tombstone in the world and the only one containing decorative mosaic.

The cemetery continues to function as a Jewish burial site.

Jewish cemetery of wroclaw, poland (new)

The new Jewish cemetery of Wroclaw, Poland

Jewish cemetery Poland (Wroclaw 2009)

Jewish Cemetery in Katowice, Poland 1868 Walking Tour

Jewish cemetery in Katowice (Kozielska 16 street) was built in 1868.
During the World War II, Nazis partially devastated the cemetery.
Nowadays, on the separated with the wall cemetery, on the surface of 1,1 ha, about 1 400 -- 1 500 graves are preserved. There are, among others, splendid graves of three generations of the eminent Jewish families of merit for Katowice development: Goldsteins, Schalsches, Grünfelds, Glasers, Sklareks czy Panofskis and a Jacob Cohn's grave -- the rabbi of Katowice municipality. Some graves are sumptuously decorated. Some of them have the architectonic form which refers to Roman buildings
In 1868, a splendid mortuary was build near the cemetery. There were Chawra Kadisza rooms and a mournig room. The building was thoroughly rebuilded and expanded in 1870.

Jewish Cemetery in Gliwice Poland

Jewish cemetery in Poland (Wroclaw 2009)

”A vanished world” - documentary about Jewish cemeteries in Moldova. Radio Europa Libera

Jewish Cemetery in Wrocław 1856 (museum) Walking tour, The most beautiful I have ever seen

Established in 1856, this 4.6 hectare cemetery is perhaps the most well-preserved testament to the former strength of Breslau's pre-war Jewish community, with over 1200 gravestones. Closed in 1942, the cemetery quickly fell into deep neglect: in 1945 it was turned into a fortress by the Nazis and saw fierce fighting as evidenced by the eerie bullet holes in many of the gravestones. Preservation began in the 1970s and in 1991 it was opened as the Museum of Jewish Cemetery Art in tribute to the craftsmanship of its sepulchral art. Indeed the beauty and diversity of styles and symbols on display is perhaps unmatched anywhere. Many noteworthy figures are buried here, including the renowned biologist Ferdinand Cohn, the historian Heinrich Graetz (author of the first complete history of the Jews), Clara Immerwahl (first female PhD student at the University of Breslau, and wife of Fritz Haber, who committed suicide in objection to her husband's work developing chemical warfare), Ferdinand Lassalle (founder and leader of the first labour party in Germany, killed in a duel), and the parents of Edith Stein; using old records some of their tombstones are slowly being restored. However, despite these modest efforts the Ślężna Street Cemetery remains a completely mysterious and evocative sanctuary of decaying vine-covered monuments, the broken pieces of which are stacked against each other, giving shelter to stray cats and shade to wildflowers. Well worth a visit.

Explore Tarnów Jewish Cemetery founded in 1581

The necropolis is one of the largest, oldest (established in the 16th c., the first written records date to 1581) and best preserved cemeteries in southern Poland. It occupies an area of 3,27 ha, and comprises around 4 000 tombstones, of which the oldest date back to the 17th c. Most of the gravestones are greatly ornamented and rich in symbols, some of them preserved traces of polychromy and have Hebrew, Polish and German inscriptions.

Jewish cemetery in Poland (Wroclaw 2009)

The Jewish Cemetery of Dzialoszyce, Poland

The beginning of an attempt to bring Poles and Jews together to restore the destroyed Jewish cemetery in Dzialoszyce. Whether this effort will succeed remains to be seen.

Beautiful Forgotten Jewish Cemetery

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