Wschodnia Street (Białystok) Jewish Cemetery

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery

Jewish Cemetery

The Jewish Cemetery on Wschodnia Street in Białystok , a Polish town in the Podlaskie Voivodeship , was established around 1890 after the old cemetery on Kalinowski Street was closed. The Jewish cemetery is a protected cultural monument , it is surrounded by a brick wall.

It is the only surviving Jewish cemetery in Bialystok and one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Poland. About 6000 gravestones have been preserved on an area of ​​12.5 hectares , the oldest dating from 1876. The gravestones were made of marble , granite , limestone and sandstone . The inscriptions were written in Hebrew , Yiddish , Polish , Russian and German.

There were two buildings on the cemetery grounds: the Tahara House and the house of the cemetery keeper and gravedigger. The last funeral took place in 1969. On July 17, 1973, the cemetery was permanently closed.

Monuments

In the cemetery there is a memorial that was unveiled before the Second World War and commemorates the victims of the pogrom that the Russians carried out against the Jews in 1906. Around 90 Jews were killed in this pogrom. The names of the victims of the pogrom are carved on the black stone.

Mausoleum for Rabbi Chaim Herz Halpern

Buried personalities

• Chaim Herz Halpern (died 1919), rabbi

Web links

Commons : Wschodnia Street Jewish Cemetery (Białystok)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the cemetery at Virtual Shtetl

Coordinates: 53 ° 9 '0.7 "  N , 23 ° 11' 46.3"  E