Lipno Jewish cemetery
The Jewish cemetery in Lipno (German Leipe ), a town in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland , was established in 1736 and destroyed in 1939.
history
The first mention of the cemetery comes from 1736. It is believed that it was in the same place all along, although the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw has a photocopy of the map of Lipno from 1830, where two Jewish cemeteries are located are recorded. One of the two is referred to there as a "former" cemetery; one explanation could be that the construction of a new cemetery was actually planned around 1830, but this was not realized. Instead, the existing cemetery was evidently expanded, as some military maps from 1935 are said to show.
The cemetery was destroyed by the German occupiers in 1939 after the outbreak of war , the gravestones were used to repair sidewalks in the city. Today there is a veterinary station, a parking lot and an administration building on the site.
source
- Cmentarz ( ul.Sierakowskiego ) , description on the Wirtualny sztetl portal (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich - Museum of the History of Polish Jews), online at: sztetl.org.pl / ...