Jewish cemetery in sierpc (Władysław Jagiełło Street)

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Data about cemetery

Town: Sierpc

Cemetery type: Jewish

Number of graves: 170

Street: Władysława Jagiełły

Creation date: before 1850

Graves of the Holocaust victims: No

Area: 0,2 ha

The oldest grave: 1850

Working: No

Jewish cemetery in Sierpc (Władysław Jagiełło Street) was founded in the first half of the 19th century. During World War II the Germans devastated the cemetery. The matzevot was used as curbs and flagstones.

At the area of 0,2 ha there are 170 matzevot, the oldest of them came from 1850. Leon (Lejb) Gongola who survived the Holocaust gathered and looked after them. Carved decorations in Yiddish, Polish and Hebrew preserved in the cemetery.

In 1960 the local authorities put up the monument commemorating Jews from Sierpc in the cemetery. In 1970-1972 around the monument the pieces of matzevot were gathered. The area was fenced.

In 1998-1999 the descendent of the tzaddik from Sierpc- rabbi Eliakin Schlesinger founded fencing the cemetery and its putting in order. On September 1, 1999 the cemetery was symbolically reconsecrated.

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