Jewish cemetery (Lipowa Street)

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Data about cemetery

Town: Pruszków

Cemetery type: Jewish

Number of graves: 204

Street: Lipowa

Creation date: 1904

Graves of the Holocaust victims: Yes

Area: 0,48 ha

The oldest grave: after 1904

Working: No

The Jewish cemetery in Pruszków was founded in 1905. During World War II it was devastated by German people.

About 150 gravestones retained in the area of 1,2 ha, the oldest of which dated from 1905. Jewish gravestones were made of granite and sandstone. Typical ornaments and inscriptions in Hebrew and Polish retained. The cemetery is surrounded with a brick wall.

The mortuary, renovated by local authorities lately, survived. Cemetery maintenance work is done regularly by German young people from Esslingen and nearby.

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