Obj. ID: 51356
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish cemetery in Przemyśl, Poland - Photos of 2020
To the main object: New Jewish Cemetery in Przemyśl, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, this cemetery is one of the few active Jewish cemeteries in Poland. The cemetery was founded around 1847, after the old Jewish cemetery of Przemysl was almost completely full. There are numerous Holocaust monuments as well as many of the tombstones of the victims. After the war, a monument dedicated “In memory of 4,000 Jews, victims of Nazi crimes in 1939-1944” was erected near the gate. There is a mass grave of the Jews from Medyka, murdered by the Germans in 1943, and the symbolic grave of the famous social activist, Captain Emil Klausner, murdered by the NKVD in Katyn. In the central part of the cemetery, in twelve mass graves, victims of German executions were buried including Jews from, among others: Przemyśl, Stalowa Wola and Lubaczów. On November 3rd 1986, the cemetery was entered into the register of monuments under the number A-161.
The cemetery is located adjacent to the municipal cemetery, the entrance gate of the Jewish cemetery is next to the funeral home.
