Jewish cemetery (Lunna)
The old Jewish cemetery in Lunna is the oldest Jewish burial place in the Belarusian town of Lunna in the Hrodsenskaja Woblasz . It is located on a meadow area now framed by gardens on the northern edge of the municipality. The tombstones still there were broken off or knocked over and are in the area.
The former town of Lunna has now "merged" with the neighboring towns of Wola and Zaleski to the east . There was also a Jewish cemetery in Wola . According to the map, this burial site, known as the New Jewish Cemetery , was only 500 meters southeast of the old cemetery on the western edge of a forest; it was occupied between the end of the 19th century and 1941. Today, a bypass road leads past this point to the bridge, and the forest has been expanded in a westerly direction in recent decades.
Web links
- Jewish cemetery in Lunna (Engl.)
- Jewish traces in Lunna Website of the Jewish community of Belarus (focus on genealogy), here: illustrated article by Ruth Marcus about the history of the Jewish community of Lunna (English)
- TK100 sheet P35-S38 INDURA - 1926 edition Topographic map of the Republic of Poland (1926), therefore different signature: Jewish cemeteries are marked with a T, Christian cemeteries with +.
