Obj. ID: 49501
Jewish Funerary Art New Jewish cemetery in Zamość, Poland
According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery served as a burial place until World War II. In 1942, people murdered during the so-called liquidation of the ghetto were buried in mass graves.
The cemetery was demolished during the war and the following decades. The fence and almost all the tombstones have been dismantled. The cemetery has since served as an arable field and space for allotment gardens. The funeral home refurbished into a residential building is the only thing that remains of the former cemetery.
In 1950, thanks to the efforts of the Zamość Jews, a monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was erected on the edge of the cemetery. It was built with discovered tombstones.
Around 1969, Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street was paved through the cemetery, and part of the site was taken over by the “Cora” Clothing Factory. In 2000, a wall was built behind the monument. Fragments of discovered tombstones were built into it. In 2017, the city authorities paved K. Namysłowskiego Street through the cemetery. During construction, the graves were dug up.
The cemetery is not fenced, and its boundaries are unclear. It is not listed in the Register of Historic Monuments. It is owned by the State Treasury and managed by the city of Zamość.
No tombstones were found by the survey team. There is unproven information about overturned or sunken gravestones, clearing could reveal more. About 100 fragments are located in a fenced lapidarium. According to sztetl.org.pl, the cemetery was in use between 1907 to 1941.
sub-set tree:
| At the intersection of Prosta, Karola Namysłowskiego and Bohaterów Monte Cassino streets