Jewish cemetery (Prudnik)
The Jewish cemetery in Neustadt / Upper Silesia ( Prudnik in Polish ), the district town of the Powiat Prudnicki in the Opole Voivodeship in Poland , was built around 1860. The Jewish cemetery is a protected cultural monument.
history
Around 140 tombstones are still preserved in the cemetery today , including family tombs of the factory owners Fränkel and Pinkus. In the cemetery there is also a memorial for the murdered Jewish prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , who perished in January 1945 during the evacuation of the camp.
The former mourning hall , a synagogue-like building, is now used by the Pentecostals as a place of worship.
Web links
Commons : Jewish Cemetery (Prudnik) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Jewish cemetery in Prudnik (accessed December 21, 2014)
Coordinates: 50 ° 19 ′ 42 " N , 17 ° 34 ′ 29.7" E