Obj. ID: 16680
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish cemetery in Sokołów Małopolski, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery obtained its final area of 0.55 hectares and was shaped as adjoining rectangles. In the interwar period, it was surrounded by a wooden fence, and there were no buildings nor trees. Some tombstones were taken away during World War II. Executions and burials in unmarked mass graves took place at the cemetery. After 1960, a petrol station was built on a small southern part of the area. Around 1970, the area was planted with trees and fenced with a wire mesh. Fragments of tombstones found in the city were returned to the cemetery. There are over 350 tombstones, with many of them placed in their original location. The graves are arranged in regular rows along the east-west axis. Two separate quarters are visible: one for women (including maidens), and one for men (cohanim, Levites, lads and prominent members of the community). There are traditional stelae and one obelisk. They are mainly made of sandstone with several 20th-century ones being made from concrete.
The cemetery starts at the crossroads of Tysiąclecia and Okulickiego streets and covers the eastern side of Okulickiego Street, opposite to residental houses No.1-5.
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