The new Jewish cemetery (Dąbrówki Street)
Heritage Sites – Cemeteries
Polska / mazowieckie
The new Jewish cemetery in Mińsk Mazowiecki (Dąbrówki Street) was probably established in about 1870. The necropolis is located between Dąbrówka Street and I Pułku Lotnictwa Myśliwskiego "Warszawa" Street and it occupies a rectangular plot of land measuring 150 m x 60 m. The area is fenced with a damaged wire mesh, with an entrance gate on the north-west side.
Despite the destructions from the World War II and the post-war period years, several hundred tombstones were preserved in the cemetery. There is a clear layout of the graves and a typical for Jewish cemeteries division into male and female sections. Most of the tombstones are made of sandstones. Also, a certain number of tombstones made of simple, rough granite stones have been preserved. Epitaphs in Hebrew prevail. Some of the matzevot bear grave inscriptions in Yiddish and Polish.
There are unmarked mass graves of people put before a firing squad during World War II.
On August 21, 1967, on the 25th anniversary of the dissolution of the ghetto in Mińsk, a monument designed by Jehiel Kirszenbaum was unveiled. It is devoted to the victims of the Holocaust. The commemorative plaque bears inscriptions in Polish and Hebrew: The monument is dedicated to the memory of Jewish people from Mińsk Mazowiecki and its neighborhood in the number of 5500 men, women and children murdered between 1939 and 1945 by the Nazi perpetrators of genocide. May the names of the martyrs live on.
Thanks to the efforts of people associated with the Jewish Community in Warsaw, in 2007, an inventory of the cemetery in Mińsk Mazowiecki was finally made. The index of the tombstones was published on the website www.jewish.org.pl/minsk. More information can be obtained at the following address: minsk@jewish.org.pl
The area of the cemetery is regularly cleaned by the members of the Baptist Church in Mińsk Mazowiecki.
One can enter the cemetery through the unclosed gate or gaps in the fence.
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