Obj. ID: 49295
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Siemiatycze, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery was expanded over the years and its final area was approximately 3 hectares. It was fenced with a concrete and brick wall in the interwar period, with a red brick gate. A large part of the fence has been preserved until now. During World War II, the Germans took the tombstones for utility purposes. Local residents continued to steal the tombstones after the war, and none have survived in their original location. During the war, victims of executions from the town, including victims of a mass execution of 70 people, were buried in the cemetery. The area of the Jewish cemetery, covered with pine trees, is located between Kościuszki Street (on the west) and Polna Street (on the north and east). In the 1970s, the buildings of the Polish Motorcycle Association were erected in the western part of the cemetery. In 2017, behind the buildings a part of the cemetery was liquidated, by removing a layer of earth which was about 2 metres deep with human remains. Bones continued to fall out of the escarpment on the part of the cemetery which borders a parking lot. In 2007, a commemorative plaque was placed in the cemetery on the site of the mass grave, and tombstones recovered from the town were placed around it.
The cemetery is partly fenced by an old masonry wall (about 1 m high) and by a wire mesh fence (about 1.6 m high). There is also an original gate made of brick (about 3 m high). The western border of the cemetery, which is adjacent to, amongst others, a vehicle service station, is not fenced. There are only bare poles, the remains of a metal mesh fence.
There are 57 tombstones (in whole or in fragments). All these preserved tombstones are gathered in the lapidarium near the gate of the cemetery.
The Jewish cemetery in Siemiatycze is located between Polna and Kościuszki Streets. It covers an area of 2 hectares. Cadastral parcel no. 201001_1.0001.634/3
