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Kalisz municipality will recover the Jewish cemetery

It is very probable that this year the buildings and the land that belong to the Special School and Educational Center (Specjalny Osrodek Szkolno-Wychowawczy) in Kalisz will be handed over to the Jewish community in Wroclaw. The efforts of the Jewish community to restore the former cemetery have lasted twenty years. Finally, the city has found a new base for the Center, which can now relinquish the building.

As of yet, it is uncertain where the new base of the Center will be located but the local government in Kalisz will purchase a developed land from the state budget money and from money donated by one of the foundations. Presently, the Center houses two special schools. The institution owns its own workshops where the students receive practical education, providing painting, upholstering and locksmithing services, among other activities. Bordering with Nowy Swiat, Handlowa and Skalmierzycka Streets, the Jewish cemetery, which had been established towards the end of the 12th Century, operated till 1939.

Despite the fact that before the outbreak of World War I, Jewish Kalish residents were buried in the new cemetery on Podmiejska Street, the old one was preserved, according to the precepts of Judaism. Under the Nazi occupation, the Germans defaced the necropolis, using matzevot as a paving material for the Rypinkowski Canal. After the end of the war, a housing estate was built in this place and in the mid 1960s, the Center was erected.

In 1990, during the heat pipeline construction works, human remnants were discovered in the area by workers. Since that moment, the ongoing talks over handing over the site of the former Jewish cemetery to the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland has been pending. However, the biggest stumbling block in the case has been finding the new seat for the Center, with the town devoid of any funds for such an investment. Thanks to governmental and foreign support, it is now possible. All parties hope that the issue will be resolved soon.

Source:

•Polska – Głos Wielkopolski newspaper, Mariusz Kurzajczyk, Były żydowski cmentarz wraca do właścicieli (Jan. 19th, 2012 )

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