The new Jewish cemetery in Prudnik (40 Kolejowa Street) was established in 1861[1.1]. It survived the Second World War undamaged. In the following years numerous acts of vandalism and theft of matzevot occurred.
On an area of 0.2 ha around 140 matzevot remained, with German and Hebrew epitaphs. The Fränkel Family vault is of particular interest. The cemetery is enclosed, with the original decorated fence preserved at the front.
An obelisk is located on the territory of the cemetery, marking the grave of Jewish Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp prisoners murdered by the Nazis in Prudnik in 1945.
A pre-burial house is located at the cemetery. The mortuary was taken over in 1985/86 from the town authorities by the Pentecostal Church. The members of the local congregation paved the cemetery entrance and in 1989 added a new gate, matching the looks of the original fence. The mortuary was restored and adopted for a Pentecostal chapel in 1990. Mr. Radosław Brylak, who lives in the building, takes care of the cemetery without payment.
In 2007 Mr. Łukasz Wylęgała started cataloguing the cemetery. He compiled a list of the buried:
Joseph Fränkel
Louis Loewenstein
Kurt Fränke
Rosa Krause nee Czwiklitzer
Georg Krause
Anna Oppenheim nee. Doctor
Frieda ? Ke?
Auguste Frankel nee Guttmann
Frlier Czwiklitzer
Emil Friedl
? Bafz
? Schneider
Anna Schneider nee Chotzen
Ernestine Fränkel nee Polke
Samuel Fränkel
Carilie Deutsch nee Frankel
Marcus Deutsch
Dorothen Deutsch nee Marer
Abraham ? Sarhs
Marie Goldstein
Ludwig Preifs
? Bafs
Pauline Graetzer nee Polke
Louis Cohn
Salomon Schott
Gottlieb Schneider
Friedericke Deutsch nee Linger
Joseph Ch?
Isaac Mokrauer
Henrite Danziger
Samuel Danziger
Moritz Schlelinger
Rosalie Schlelinger nee Chotzen
Adele Chotzen
Anna Frankel nee Kauffmann
Simon Frankel
Farani Adler nee Proskauer
Julius Goldstein
Rosalie Goldstein nee Breslauer
Sigmund Kassel
Sigmund Jarm
? Capauner
Olga Capauner nee Mokrauer
Charlotte Mokrauer nee Fiedler
Fabian Danziger
Pauline Danziger
Helenę Marrus nee Morawsky
?onniz Schneider
? Bafz Bafz
Mathilde nee Welsch
Rosa Da? nee Reich
Rosalie Lippman
Natalie Chotzen
Johanna Fränkel nee Hasse
Auguste Pinkus nee Fränkel
Joseph Pinkus
Emilie Fränkel nee Alexander
Albert Fränkel
Mayer Löwe
Rosalie Löwe nee Fränkel
Oskar Kassel
Rosalie Doctor nee Rosenzweig
Oskar Mokrauer
Cärilie Adler
Alfred Löwe
Clara Müller nee Lewy
Salomon Müller
Georg Gauber
Isidor Goldschmidt
Marta Goldschmidt nee Lewy
Rosalie Chotzen nee Orgler
Wilhelm Chotzen
Hedwig Pinkus nee Oberlander
Max Pinkus
Emma Fränkel nee Deutsch
Emanuel Fränkel
lise Neumann nee Fränkel
Alfred Neumann
Selma Aulterlitz nee Goerke
Moritz Aulterlitz
Benjamin Cohn
Julius Adler
Carilie Adler nee Doctor
Friedericke Friedlander nee Courant
Rosalie ?
Minna Krause nee Landau
Lina Miillerz nee Kaliski
Herbert Cohn
Wilhelm Marcus
Dora Marcus nee Ucko
Flora Doctor nee Dittel
Alfred Doctor
The municipal company is in charge of regular maintenance of the cemetery.
Rejestr zabytków (Registry of Historic Monuments) A-21/77 dated 31.03.1977.
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