Lębork Old Jewish Cemetery

Today, the cemetery site is located in Chrobry Park. The old cemetery was located opposite the long steps in the park, on a slope below the former “Wilhelm’s Hill”.
The old Jewish cemetery was most probably established in the mid-18th century. Joseph Wulff, a Jewish gravedigger, is mentioned for the first time in 1772. Until 1815, it was also used by Jews from Słupsk, despite being 60 kilometers away.
The cemetery had an area of ​​0.197 hectares. Burials took place here until 1912. One of the last ones was the 103-year-old Henriette Rieß, then the oldest woman in Pomerania, who was buried in 1909. In total, about 400 funerals took place in the old cemetery.
Currently, the cemetery area includes a park established in 1861. In the interwar period, when the cemetery was already neglected, and during World War II, prisoners sentenced to death were buried here at night. In 1935, the mayor of Lębork ordered “the elimination of this disgraced place”. All the tombstones were to be removed and the site razed to the ground. Ultimately, the remains of the tombstones were removed in the years 1963–1965. A similar fate befell the remains of the Protestant cemetery.
The steps located in the park were largely made of old tombstones. On one of the tablets it was possible to decipher Hebrew letters.
(“Śladami żydowskimi po Kaszubach”, book edited by Miłosława Borzyszkowska-Szewczyk and Christian Pletzing; © 2010 Academia Baltica, © 2010 Instytut Kaszubski)

The first permanent Jewish inhabitants of Lębork appeared at the end of the 18th century. At that time, the area of the park mountain (now Chrobrego Park) was made available to them as their burial place. According to sources, the dead were buried there until the end of the 19th century.
The tombstones survived until 1938, when they were destroyed by the Nazi authorities. Their remains were used to arrange the steps leading to the water tower. A few years ago, articles with photos appeared in the local press, confirming the information that the remains of Jewish tombstones were used for their construction.
(https://gp24.pl/gdzie-sie-podzialy-zydowskie-cmentarze/ar/4801527 ; March 20, 2013)