Prabuty Jewish Cemetery

We know little about the history of the Jews of Prabuty. According to “The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust”, individual Jewish families lived in Prabuty (Riesenburg) already around 1700. The religious community was founded later, but the encyclopedia does not specify the date of its creation. In 1831, 69 Jews lived in the town, in 1895 – 145. Around 1870, a synagogue was built. As in other cities, the number of Jewish inhabitants of Prabuty decreased at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. About seventy Jews lived here in 1925. As a result of the Nazi repressions, many of them left their hometown.
The date of establishing the Jewish cemetery in Prabuty is unknown. The above-mentioned encyclopedia writes about the establishment of the cemetery in the 18th century, while the Jewishgen website dates it back to around 1812. The necropolis was located on the square between Jagiełły Street and the garages built here after the war. Its location is marked on pre-war maps of Prabuty. According to information from one of the participants of the forum www.marienburg.pl, the cemetery “was demolished by Poles after World War II”. Today, among the grass, one can still find single traces of tombstones.
(K. Bielawski; bloodandfrogs.com/wp-content/uploads/encyclopedia/poland/kirkuty/prabuty.htm)