Obj. ID: 52255
Jewish Funerary Art  Site of the New Jewish cemetery in Świnoujście, Poland

According to ESJF European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative, the New Jewish cemetery in Świnoujście was established around 1875 as the first burial place between Heysestraße (currently Wyspiańskiego Street) and Friedensstraße (now Chopina Street) was filled. The cemetery was established on a plot similar to a parallelogram, located south-west of the intersection of Kurparkstrasse (currently Sienkiewicza Street) and Justus-v.-Liebig-Strasse (today, alleys connecting Sienkiewicza and Matejki Streets). In 1928, the remains exhumed from the old cemetery were placed there. It is known that a funeral house was built later.
The cemetery was devastated during Kristallnacht in 1938. There is no detailed information about the fate of the building during World War II and in subsequent years. There are no remaining tombstones within it and the area is overgrown with trees.
The cemetery is entered in the Municipal Register of Monuments.