Obj. ID: 51588
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish cemetery in Głubczyce, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery was established in 1896, and it was subsequently destroyed during WWII by the Germans. Today it is an overgrown cemetery surrounded by a brick wall.
On the area of approximately 0.7 hectares, only one whole tombstone, belonging to Max Bachrach (born on May 28, 1887, died on January 9, 1941) has survived. Moreover, there are fragments of about eighty broken and damaged tombstones and numerous foundations of graves. Fragments of inscriptions in Hebrew and German can be found on the tombstones. There is no information about any mass graves in the cemetery. There are fragments of tombstones with a cross and also there is a metal cross on one of the graves, this is most likely from the neighboring Christian cemetery.
In 2011, inmates from the Penitentiary Institution in Głubczyce carried out cleaning work on the cemetery. The activities are carried out as part of the Polish-Israeli project Tikkun – Repair.
