Obj. ID: 44732
Jewish Funerary Art Jewish Cemetery in Bircza, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery is located on a hill. It borders a stream on the southern side. The remains of the concrete fence have been preserved. Wooded area in the western part covered with dense bushes. Access to this part of the cemetery is difficult. Large garbage dumps in the central part. The tombstones have been preserved in the southern part.
ESJF team met a neighbor who complained about the overgrowth and that is spreading into her field, which shows that the land is not looked after. The northern part is more overgrown than the southern, and neighbor claimed that there were no graves there.
It is known that many matzevot were used by the Germans during the occupation to pave the streets of Bircza and to strengthen the abutments of the bridge over the San river in Iskania. The cemetery was entered in the register of monuments under the number A-341 on December 18, 1989. Decisions: A-341 of December 18, 1989 (WKZ Przemyśl) and A-1265 of December 18, 1989 (WKZ Przemyśl).
There are 25 damaged gravestones, sunk into the ground.
Date of the oldest tombstone: 1804
Date of the latest tombstone: 1950
Perimeter length: 723 metres
