Nowy Dwór Gdański Jewish Cemetery

Part of the text by Professor Grzegorz Berendt, originally published on the website of the Jewish Community in Gdańsk (source: sztetl.org.pl):
The statute of the Jewish community was approved on July 4, 1858. It was adopted with reference to the general provisions of the legal act of 23 July, 1847, defining new rules for the functioning of Jews in the Kingdom of Prussia. Pursuant to the provisions of the law, people living within the city and the poviat became members of the commune.
In the 1860s, a small synagogue was officially opened. It has not yet been determined whether it was located in an old building adapted for religious purposes or in a newly built one. The community also had its own local cemetery. The small number of the faithful did not allow them to maintain the position of a rabbi on their own. Hence, the rituals that required his presence, or the presence of other people familiar with the rites, were performed by properly prepared people permanently employed in the neighbouring, larger Jewish communities.
[…] On February 9, 1937, it was decided to sell the plot on which the building [of the synagogue] stood to a certain Albrecht, on condition that he would demolish the plot at his own expense and allocate the plot for a garden. The money obtained from the sale was planned to be used to pay off the debts of the Nowy Dwór commune that had arisen earlier. In addition, part of the money was divided between three Jewish families still living in the town in April 1937, namely the Hirschfeld, Plonski and Wolf families. In line with the Jewish tradition, the cemetery was still looked after. At least until the summer of 1938, the related expenses were covered.
After the “Kristallnacht”, when there were pogroms of Jews in Gdańsk and Sopot, the authorities of the Gdańsk commune concluded an agreement with the Nazis concerning the principles of the gradual liquidation of communal institutions. Among other things, on January 8, 1939, an agreement was signed to make the real estate of the Synagogue Community at the disposal of the Senate authorities. The known list of plots sold at that time did not mention the cemetery in Nowy Dwór. No details of its fate after January 8, 1939 have been established. Some of the tombstones remained in the cemetery until the end of the 1960s, when by the decision of the local authorities, the cemetery area was designated for residential development (an apartment block at Maria Konopnicka Street). The discovered tombstones were transferred to a local museum, where they are kept to this day.