The monument commemorating Holocaust victims
Heritage Sites – Places of martyrology
Polska / małopolskie
In 1964, the Jewish Congregation of Kraków conducted exhumation of the bodies of 92 Jews murdered in 1943 in Maków Podlaski and buried in the yard of a villa in which a school for SS and Gestapo students operated during the war. Following the war, the building was converted into a leisure center of the Chemical plant in Oświęcim. The Nazi victims were buried in the Wadowice cemetery. A ceremonial funeral took place on 26 February 1964[1.1].
There is a Hebrew and Polish inscription on a monument – a huge granite slab – placed on a mass grave. The text reads “To the memory of the Jews from Wadowice, Cieszyn, Katowice, Żywiec, Bielsko, Dziedzice, Czechowice, Andrychów, Kęty, Sucha and Zator, herded up in the Wadowice ghetto by Nazi thugs and murdered in 1942-43 in the Bełżec and Oświęcim death camps. A grave of 92 Jews killed by the Nazi thugs in 1943 in Maków Podhalański, among them being Godman Jakub and Bernard, Slimmer Fryderyk and Olga and their son Szymon, aged four. We entrust the memory of their passion and annihilation to the stone”.
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[1.1] Obituary notice was published in: „Dziennik Polski” 25 February 1964.
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