Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Poland
Region
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
District
Bartoszyce
Settlement
Bartoszyce
Site address
Adjacent to Kętrzyńska Street, 58. Bartoszyce. Former cemetery is a field (about 0,15 ha) which adjoins shop Media Expert from south-east and is opposite to municipal cemetery. Cadastral parcel no. 280101_1.0008.71/9
GPS coordinates
54.245828, 20.822883
Perimeter length
153 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fenced.
Preservation condition
Demolished Jewish cemetery that has not been built over
General site condition
Jewish cemetery of Bartoszyce is demolished and partly overbuilt by road Kętrzyńska (formerly Rastemborska Street/Rastenburgerstraße). Most part of the former cemetery area is a non-overbuilt overgrown meadow. No tombstones have survived. Our field team has discovered remains of concrete foundations of the presumable cemetery wall (in the east and south parts of the border).
Number of existing gravestones
No tombstones preserved.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes

Historical overview

Jews appeared in Bartoszyce as early as 1737, creating a relatively large community in the 19th century. In 1843, the community consisted of 79 people, the largest number of which lived in the city in 1880, when it reached 86 people. The local cemetery was established around 1820 on a low hill, it had an area of ​​about 0.15 ha. The above-ground part of the cemetery was removed at the turn of the 1930s and 1940s. The cemetery located at today’s Kętrzyńska Street is almost unreadable.
As a result of repressions, the Jewish community, which in 1910 consisted of 95 representatives, in 1937 had only 9 families, and in 1940 – in the year from which the last reliable information about the number of Jews in Bartoszyce comes from, we have data on 12 people. Nineteen people born or living in Bartoszyce are among the victims of the Holocaust and those who died during World War II. Before World War II, several people emigrated to the United States.
(“Żydowskie domy modlitwy oraz cmentarze na Warmii i Mazurach – stan obecny” book by Seweryn Szczepański, 2017; doi.org/10.26774/rzz.165)

Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery
Bartoszyce Jewish Cemetery