Jewish cemetery (Otwock)
Coordinates: 52 ° 5 ′ 2 ″ N , 21 ° 16 ′ 19 ″ E
The Jewish cemetery in Otwock , a district town in Poland in the Masovian Voivodeship , was built in the 19th century. During the Second World War it was destroyed by German occupation forces. It has not been used since then. It extends to a size of around 17,000 square meters and today includes around 900 graves.
history
The Jewish residents of Otwock were buried in the larger Jewish cemetery in Karczew . At the smaller burial site in Otwock, the deceased spa guests and sick people of Jewish faith were buried in Otwock, mainly in the period between the world wars. In the decades after the Second World War, the already heavily damaged cemetery was also destroyed and looted. Another damage was caused by the routing of an above-ground power supply road across the cemetery.
The present owner of the cemetery is the Jewish religious community in Warsaw. In cooperation with the “1. Baptist Church ”in Otwock as well as Baptist volunteers from the USA and for several years the“ Association for the Remembrance of the Jews in Otwock and Karczew ”( Społeczny Komitet Pamięci Żydów Otwockich i Karczewskich ) has maintained the cemetery. In August 2007, around 50 tons of field stones were laid along the former cemetery border for alignment. The cemetery is now in a forest on the outskirts of the village.
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to the information Otwock - Jewish cemetery (Hrabiego Street) at Sztetl.org.pl (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich)
Web links
- Cemetery website (in Polish)
- List of all graves (in English / Polish)
- Website of the Association for the Memory of the Jews in Otwock and Karczew (in Polish)
- Satellite image on Google Maps / Earth
- Film on YouTube at the start of the 2007 cleanup
- Virtual Shtetl - The Jewish Cemetery in Otwock (English)