Jewish cemetery (Zabrze)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Zabrze

View of the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Zabrze (German Hindenburg ), a town in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland , was laid out in 1872.

history

Before that, the dead of the Jewish community in Zabrze were buried in the Jewish cemeteries in Beuthen or Gleiwitz . At the same time as the cemetery, a Tahara house was built , which was equipped with an apartment for the cemetery attendant. In the years 1894/95 and several times thereafter, the cemetery area was enlarged. The last burial took place in 1954.

Around 300 tombstones are still preserved in the 1.5 hectare cemetery . There is also a mass grave of prisoners from the Zabrze subcamp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on the site .

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Zabrze)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Virtual Shtetl (accessed December 3, 2015)

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 28.9 ″  N , 18 ° 47 ′ 43.5 ″  E