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Obj. ID: 49361
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Stawiski, Poland

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery was most likely founded at the beginning of the 19th century. Over the next 100 years, the cemetery was used as the burial site for residents of Stawiski and nearby villages. It was the burial site for local rabbis including Chaim Myszkowski and Aron Dworski. The cemetery eventually fell into disrepair.

Today, there are some stelae made of granite in varying conditions (the oldest identified tombstone dates possibly to 1842), as well as concrete walls that used to surround the cemetery. The cemetery borders are partially clear thanks to the remainders of the embankments and the surrounding wall. Access to the area is limited due to watercourses. The cemetery is periodically flooded due to local beaver dams. In 2009, members of the Warsaw Jewish Community relocated some of the recovered tombstones due to flooding. The cemetery is owned by the Stawiski local government, and it is part of the county and voivodeship register of historical landmarks and immovable monuments.

The cemetery is located on a plot shaped like an irregular polygon, including the cemetery reserve on the western side, with an acreage of about 4.5 hectares. There are remains of an early Medieval settlement with a diameter of about 60 m and with embankments as high as 2 m in the northwest corner of the cemetery. The cemetery was surrounded by farmland and located near flood water on the north and east sides.

ESJF team found 15 intact tombstones and their fragments.

Date of oldest tombstone: 1842

Date of newest tombstone: 1872

Perimeter length: 603 metres

To reach the cemetery, head 1.2 km south-east from Stawiski via Łomżyńska Street, stop on the eastern side of the road. The cemetery will be in a forested area 200-250 m from the street by the bank of Mogilna River, the left-bank tributary of the Dzierzbia River.

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