Janowo Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
District
Nidzica
Settlement
Janowo
Site address
Adjacent to Działowa Street, Janowo. Cemetery is situated along the northern side of Działowa street on to the crossroad of Działowa and Cicha streets.
GPS coordinates
53.318785, 20.680272
Perimeter length
205 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence. Most part of the cemetery area is fenced with one line of barbed wire suspended on wooden stakes (max. 1 m high). It does not form any protection of the area and should be replaced with a new fencing.
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
Jewish cemetery of Janowo is situated on the north-eastern outskirts of the village. Cemetery is a wooded area, surrounded by pastures and farming fields on north and east and residential houses on the west. Southern border of the cemetery area is Działowa street. The cemetery is partially destroyed. The boundaries of the cemetery are partially legible thanks to the old oak trees. A dirt road leads through the area to the pasture. A fragment of the cemetery plot has been fenced with barbed wire on stakes. The cemetery is marked with a metal plate with the inscription: "The Jewish cemetery in Janów".
Number of existing gravestones
Our field team has discovered 16 tombstones, all of them are in the west-north part of the territory.
Date of oldest tombstone
1852
Date of newest tombstone
1892
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Other
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The date of establishing the cemetery is unknown. In 1781, the inspector of the local Roman Catholic parish stated: "There are no Jewish synagogues, public schools, and Jewish cemeteries. They are burying Jewish corpses in Ciechanów next to their synagogue."
The cemetery has undergone far-reaching devastation. There are 11 tombstones made of granite field stones with inscriptions in Hebrew, incl. Matzevah of Yehuda Tzvi, son of Jechiel, who died on June 13, 1854 (17 Sivan 5614).
(K. Bielawski, cmentarze-zydowskie.pl)
