Jewish cemetery (Bochnia)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Bochnia

Tombstones

The Jewish cemetery in Bochnia (German Salzberg ), a Polish city ​​in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship , was laid out in 1872. The Jewish cemetery , east of the city on a hill, is a protected cultural monument .

The cemetery was devastated by the German occupiers during World War II .

Today there are only about 700 tombstones left in the 6500 m² cemetery . The last burial took place in June 1945.

Buried personalities

• Rabbi Usze Majer Halberstam (died 1932)

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof (Bochnia)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jewish cemetery in Bobowa, English and Polish at Virtual Shtetl
• www.gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de

Coordinates: 49 ° 58 ′ 16.3 ″  N , 20 ° 26 ′ 9.6 ″  E