Obj. ID: 49508
Jewish Funerary Art  Jewish cemetery in Józefów nad Wisłą, Poland

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery was established in the second half of the 17th century. At the beginning of the next century, it was mentioned in the city records. The oldest tombstone dates to 1702. The cemetery covered an area of 1.3 hectares and was situated among fields, outside the town, south-east of the market square. The last burials took place there in 1942. After World War II, the cemetery gradually deteriorated, and in 1972 it was liquidated with the consent of the Voivodeship Monument Conservator in Lublin. A garbage dump was established in a part of the former cemetery. About 150 tombstones have survived in the cemetery, most of which are displaced and broken. There are also rows of tombstone bases indicating the layout of the burials. There are 20 stelae with fully legible and complete inscriptions. The cemetery is still frequently littered, and local farmers use it, among other things, for storing the grubbed-up roots of fruit trees. 

There is 1 well-preserved tombstone and 6 fragments, it seems that all of them are located in situ. The only preserved tombstone is at the back of the cemetery, near to the fruit orchards.

The cemetery is located 300 metres past 46A, Urzędowska Street, along the dirt road.