Pisz Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
District
Pisz
Settlement
Pisz
Site address
Parkowa Street, close to the south border of big wood processing plant “Paged Pisz” (about 100 meters), 550 meters South from the intersection with Leśna Street.
GPS coordinates
53.618600, 21.800151
Perimeter length
136 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence.
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
Unfenced, well-maintained Jewish cemetery with just one gravestone seemingly in its original place and several fragments of the tombstones. Only the east border of the cemetery is fenced by the metal mesh fence. The area is clean (no litter), grass mowed, scrubs grubbed up. The necropolis is marked (a plaque with the Star of David and the word "cemetery"). There is a lapidarium.
Number of existing gravestones
2 tombstones (one of them seems on its original place) and 15 fragments. There are 2 whole matzevot (one of them seems to be in its original place) and remnants of 15 tombstones remains (all of them in the lapidarium, except one which is in the grass near to the east border - photos no. 28, 29, 30).
Date of oldest tombstone
1827
Date of newest tombstone
1912
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes
Historical overview
The religious cemetery existed at least from 1854. It was established south of the town, at the intersection of field roads, one of which is an extension of today's ul. Parkowa, the second one leads eastwards from the necropolis towards the Pisa River.
The square in plan of the cemetery, with an area of approximately 0.4 ha, was surrounded by a permanent fence set on metal posts.
The cemetery was devastated during the times of National Socialism. Until the mid-1990s, in the central part of the necropolis, there was the last matzevah of Leiser Radinowski with inscriptions in Hebrew and German: "Hier ruht in Gott mein lieber Mann, unser guter unvergesslicher Vater Leiser Radinowski, geb. 13 Aug. 1850, gesture. 20 Sept. 1926 ". Matzevah went missing under mysterious circumstances.
To this day, relics of 5 burials (matzevot bases) have been preserved in the southern part of the cemetery. Fragments of one matzevah are on display in the Muzeum Ziemi Piskiej in Pisz.
Today, several ancient trees (mainly oaks, pines, thujas and lilac shrubs) grow in the cemetery. Cleaning work has recently been carried out, removing, inter alia, numerous shrubs.
(sztetl.org.pl)
