Obj. ID: 49485
Jewish Funerary Art  Old and New Jewish cemeteries in Biskupice, Poland

There are 3 gravestones in the new cemetery. In the old cemetery, there are 17 tombstones, 13 of which have been preserved in a fragmentary state due to damage or from falling into the ground. From the witness account, it is known that around 50 tombstones survived in the cemetery area after the war. Over the years they fell into disrepair and many have fallen and are now overgrown with tall grass. The witness confirms that there used to be an ohel in the cemetery, which collapsed and was reclaimed by nature. In the new cemetery, there is one standing tombstone which has been preserved in the corner adjacent to the old cemetery. Next to it, hidden in the grass, lies another. More or less in the centre of the new part of the cemetery there is a tombstone covered with grass, which, according to a witness, was installed long after the war (he estimates it was the 1960s).

There is no fence, however some tombstones and the historical boundaries of the cemetery have been preserved. The cemetery consists of two parts that used to be two separate Jewish cemeteries – an old and a new. Since the 1930s, both cemeteries shared a fence and were treated as one cemetery, with the old and new parts. The old Jewish cemetery is situated on a hill (the hill is not natural, it was built for the needs of the cemetery) and is covered with tall grass. The new cemetery is situated on a flat area adjacent to the old cemetery.

The path leading to the cemetery is between №18 and №20 on Miła Street.