Mysliborz Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Poland
Region
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
District
Myślibórz
Settlement
Myślibórz
Site address
The cemetery territory is located in an area now occupied by buildings at 41 and 43, Strzelecka Street.
GPS coordinates
52.9232187, 14.8729563
Perimeter length
154 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fenced. Currently there are private properties.
Preservation condition
Demolished and overbuilt Jewish cemetery
General site condition
Demolished and overbuilt cemetery. Currently, there are single-family residential buildings in its place. The site is not commemorated in any form.
Number of existing gravestones
No tombstones preserved.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
Fence is not needed
Land ownership
Private
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No

Historical overview

The Jewish cemetery in Myślibórz was probably established in the 18th century. It was located between Strzelecka and Wałowa streets, behind the present Darius and Girenas Secondary School Complex. Its area was about 0.11 ha. It was surrounded by a wall approximately 144 meters long. The wall ran approximately 20 meters from the intersection of Strzelecka and Gdańska streets.
The cemetery functioned until the end of the 1930s. It was not destroyed during the Nazi rule. Based on the photographic documentation from 1963 kept in the Archives of the Provincial Office for the Protection of Monuments in Szczecin, it can be stated that at that time it was still in good condition, wooded, with numerous tombstones bearing German and Hebrew inscriptions.
Its destruction must have taken place after 1963. In 1992, it was formally excluded from the conservation records. Currently, there are buildings on its plot with addresses at 41 and 43 Strzelecka Street.
(sztetl.org.pl)

The Jewish community in Myślibórz in the 1840s had about 120 people, while less than 100 years later only about 30 people. Despite the Nazi excesses in the 1930s, the necropolis survived World War II and the next twenty years in good condition. Even in the mid-1960s, there were numerous well-preserved matzevot from the 19th and 20th centuries in the cemetery.
(West Pomeranian Encyclopedia; http://encyklopedia.szczecin.pl)

Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery
Myślibórz Jewish Cemetery