Obj. ID: 49610
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland - Photos of 2020
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Frampol, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Frampol was founded as a private town before 1736 (the location of privilege record is unknown). The cemetery was established just after the city’s founding and is located approximately 300 metres north-west of the market square. In 1897, it was expanded at the south end of the plot, and the land was shaped like an irregular polygon with an area of 0.74 hectares (ha). According to a description from 1910, the older part of the cemetery was fenced with a stone wall with a gate on the eastern side, and the newer part with a wooden fence. The area was covered with tall pine trees. In 1942, about 1,000 Jews who were murdered during “Operation Reinhardt” were buried in three mass graves in the cemetery. The cemetery survived the war almost intact. After the War, the local non-Jewish population used the stone fence and most of the tombstones for construction purposes. After 1946, the cemetery was narrowed on the west side, and the edge was incorporated into the town. Over time, the cemetery became overgrown with poplars and robins.
In 1985, the cemetery was fenced, a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust was erected, and the mass graves were marked. In 2006 and 2016, the cemetery was cleaned again, trees were cut down, the fence was completed, and a new monument was erected next to the mass graves.
Currently, the cemetery covers an area of 0.61 ha. The cemetery is fenced with a metal fence around 1.8 metres high. There are over 160 tombstones in the cemetery, most of which are fragmented and the oldest of which dates to 1735 or 1736. All of them are made of local limestone. In recent years, tombstones found in the town and its vicinity have been brought to the cemetery.
