Obj. ID: 50038
Jewish Funerary Art  Site of the Old Jewish cemetery in Włocławek, Poland

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the cemetery was founded in 1830 on the current Nowomiejskiej Street, Nazi occupiers destroyed it. Until the mid-1960s, scattered fragments of tombstones and all marble and sandstone slabs with legible inscriptions in English, Hebrew and Yiddish in the cemetery and its immediate surroundings were the prey of thieves--craftsmen-masons, who reused them for new gravestones. Sandstone tombstones became whetstones. Eventually, schools used it for a sports field. Outside the school, a stylized tombstone monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was built and unveiled on June 15, 2001, with the inscription: "In this area, the Germans created the ghetto from which they deported Polish citizens of Jewish nationality to extermination camps in 1942."

Perimeter length: 691

Holocaust memorial on the site of the Old Jewish cemetery in Włocławek, Poland