Dabrowa Bialostocka New Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Podlaskie Voivodeship
District
Sokółka
Settlement
Dąbrowa Białostocka
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is located near the fork of Sienkiewicza Street and Jana Pawła II Street. The access road to the cemetery is next to private property at No.19 Jana Pawła II Street (there is a residential building and a car workshop in the rear).
GPS coordinates
53.654281, 23.343572
Perimeter length
418 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
There is a solid white cement brick wall of height 1.5-1.6 metres.
Preservation condition
Fenced and protected Jewish cemetery
General site condition
It is a well maintained, destroyed, fenced Jewish cemetery with many tombstones preserved. Most of the cemetery terrain is in the modern park, tombs are amongst very high deciduous trees. The fence is not destroyed at any part, the area is felled, with no scrubs or tall grass. Some tombstones have repainted inscriptions on them, showing that there are people who maintain and care about the cemetery.
Number of existing gravestones
226 tombstones or fragments of tombstones, including two standing close to the monument to the Jews of Dąbrowa. Two tombstones had graffiti on them.
Date of oldest tombstone
1874
Date of newest tombstone
1938
Urgency of erecting a fence
Fence is not needed
Land ownership
Other
Preserved construction on site
In the middle of cemetery area there are remnants of the stone foundation of some small building, perhaps an ohel (photos: 072, 073, 074). There are no historical sources that note it.
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
