New Jewish Cemetery (Kazimierz Dolny)

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New Jewish cemetery in Kazimierz Dolny

The New Jewish Cemetery in Kazimierz Dolny , a Polish city ​​in the Lublin Voivodeship , was probably laid out in the 1850s. The Jewish cemetery south of the village on the road to Opole Lubelskie is a protected cultural monument .

The cemetery was devastated by the German occupiers during World War II and many tombstones were used for construction work.

There are still around 600 tombstones in the cemetery, some of which come from the Old Jewish Cemetery .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 49.7 ″  N , 21 ° 57 ′ 9 ″  E