Obj. ID: 51323
Jewish Funerary Art  New Jewish cemetery in Brzozów, Poland

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, during WW2 the Germans removed some of the tombstones and the devastation process continued after liberation. The matzevot disappeared and the area of the necropolis was gradually covered with rubbish. This state of affairs did not change until the 1990s, when, on the initiative of Drejza and Natan Weiss, with financial support from, among others, Zygfryd Kellerman, Roman Laufer and Leon Reich, the cemetery was fenced and cleaned up.

There is a metal fence. The gate is left open. There are 19 gravestones piled in the centre of the cemetery, the majority of them are fragmented and there are only a few intact. A dozen or so fragments of discovered tombstones have also been recovered. Only one tombstone has a legible inscription and dated 1929.