Filipow Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Podlaskie Voivodeship
District
Suwałki
Settlement
Filipów
Site address
The Cemetery doesn’t have an address. Heading south from Filipów on Filipów-Matłak road, stop 400m past the catholic graveyard. The cemetery is located about 300m east from the road in a meadow area by the Rospuda river (Parcel no. 858.). There is a signpost next to the road informing about cemetery.
GPS coordinates
54.16539, 22.62139
Perimeter length
409 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The Jewish cemetery is located in a rural area on the southern outskirts of the Filipów administrative district. The adjacent areas are farming fields and the eastern border of the cemetery is the wooded area by the bank of Rospuda River. The territory of the cemetery is a meadow, with the ground covered with wild grass. The cemetery is unfenced, although dozens of tombstones have preserved.
Number of existing gravestones
75. There are intact tombstones, pieces and pedestals. All tombstones have been damaged by wind erosion. Some tombstones have barely legible Hebrew inscriptions.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
1920
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Other
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
