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Obj. ID: 49727
Jewish Funerary Art
  Jewish cemetery in Bobrowniki, Poland

© ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, Photographer: ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, 2020

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the Jewish cemetery in Bobrowniki was founded in 1744 and located approximately 600 m west of the town square, beyond the town limits beside the road to Dęblin (where it remains today). Jews from the from Dęblin and Irena were also buried as they had no cemetery. The cemetery was gradually expanded and, in the interwar period, comprised of three rectangular plots in a U-shape, with an area of 0.9 hectares. It was partially walled and partially fenced by wooden slats and wooded by pine trees. Near the cemetery was a wooden funeral parlour house. During and after World War II, the cemetery was completely destroyed, and was later forgotten and overgrown. The area of the cemetery, however, survived intact. Between 1983 and 1984, thanks to the efforts of Bobrowniki-born Jisrael Ignacy Bubis, the cemetery was renovated and two memorials were erected: one in memory of victims of the Holocaust (at the site of the mass grave) and one in memory of Bubis’ mother. Remains of several dozen tombstones are still in the cemetery. In recent years, tombstones found in nearby areas were brought to the cemetery. No tombstone has survived in its entirety. The cemetery is fenced by a metal mesh fence, around 1meter high and the hedge. The metal mesh is damaged in a few places.42 fragments of tombstones have survived. 30 of them are located at gravesites.

Date of the oldest tombstone: 1852
Perimeter length: 558 metres

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Jewish cemetery in Bobrowniki | Unknown
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Established in 1744
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Poland | Lublin Voivodeship | Bobrowniki
| 20, Dęblińska Street
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