Obj. ID: 51613
Jewish Funerary Art  Jewish cemetery in Gogolin, Poland

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery in Gogolin is located on today’s Wyzwolenia Street. It was established in on land donated to the Jewish community by Meyer Fränkel. The last burial of took place on May 13, 1935 for a Moritz Hausdorf. In 1939, the cemetery became the property of the Jewish Association in Germany, and in 1943 it was taken over by the Gestapo. The cemetery was not damaged during World War II. At the beginning of the 1960s, the funeral house was demolished due to its poor technical conditions. In the 1990s, by order of the town authorities, the area of the cemetery was cleaned up and marked. In 2006, the fence was renovated. Originally, the Jewish cemetery and the adjoining Christian cemetery were separated from each other by a two-meter wall made of limestone. Currently, both cemeteries are located in one area, seemingly forming one necropolis. The Jewish cemetery is on the left side, the Christian section on the right. In a total area of 0.25 hectares, about 20 tombstones (mostly made of sandstone) and about 50 tombstone bases have been preserved. The oldest preserved tombstones dates from 1852 and commemorates a deceased child, Emilia Stenger. In the cemetery, there is a mass grave of the victims of forced labor camps for Jews, camps which existed in Gogolin from 1940 to 1944, and of the camp in Otmęt. The grave is neither located nor commemorated. There is no visible division into quarters. The cemetery is well-kept and is covered with grass and ivy. At the main gate, there is an informational board detailing the existence of a Jewish cemetery there. By the decision of December 4, 1989, the cemetery was listed in the Register of Monuments (No 229/89).

There is a stone wall around 1 meter high. The Jewish Cemetery forms part of the Communal Catholic Cemetery, divided only by a short path.