The Jewish Cemetery () in

Tarnogród Tarnogród (; ; , or , ''Tarnohorod'') is a town in Biłgoraj County, Lublin Voivodeship, Poland. It has a population of 3,399 (2006). Tarnogród is the southernmost town of the voivodeship; the distance to Lublin is 110 kilometres, while the dis ...

was probably established in 1588. Located to the east of the synagogue, it covered an area of 1.8 hectares. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

, the Nazi Germans occupying Poland desacrated and destroyed the cemetery. A few decades after the end of the war, from 1986 until 1990, the cemetery was renovated and partly surrounded by a wall to mark and protect it. Around 100 pieces of recovered tombstones were placed within the area.Burchard estimates that altogether roughly 1000

matzevah A ''masseba'' or ''matzeva'' (,, plural ''maṣṣēḇoṯ'') is a term used in the Hebrew Bible for a ''baetyl'', a type of sacred column or standing stone. In the Septuagint, it is translated as . Archaeologists have adopted the term for the ...

s from the cemetery have survived. Some of the tombstones were embedded into the wall, becoming the so-called "commemoration wall". There is a monument to the memory of Poles of Jewish origin from Tarnogród who were murdered by the Germans in 1942.

Notes

Bibliography

* * A map of

Leżajsk Leżajsk (; ; ), officially the Free Royal City of Leżajsk (), is a town in southeastern Poland with 13,871 inhabitants. Since 1999, it has been situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and is the capital of Leżajsk County. Leżajsk is famed f ...

by the Polish Military Geographical Institute 47th strip 35th pole Warsaw of 1938.

External links

The Jewish cemetery in Tarnogród
in the Polish Virtual Shtetl site.

in the Cmentarze żydowskie site ( pl.) {{DEFAULTSORT:Jewish Cemetery, Tarnogrod Jewish cemeteries in Poland Buildings and structures in Tarnogród Holocaust locations in Poland Religious buildings and structures in Lublin Voivodeship 1588 establishments in Europe