Jewish cemetery (Wilamowice)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Wilamowice

View of the cemetery

The Jewish cemetery in Wilamowice (German Wilamowitz ), a village in the Silesian Voivodeship in Poland , was established in 1891. The Jewish cemetery , where the Jews from Skoczów , Ustroń , Wisła , Brenna , Pruchna , Górki and other villages buried their dead, was devastated by German occupiers during World War II .

Today only about 50 tombstones are left in the cemetery.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online edition ).

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery (Wilamowice)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Virtual Shtetl (accessed December 3, 2015)

Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 44 "  N , 18 ° 46 ′ 32.8"  E