Recz Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Poland
Region
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
District
Choszczno
Settlement
Recz
Site address
Kolejowa Street, buildings at 12, 14 and,18, Kolejowa Street. Access is from Kolejowa Street.
GPS coordinates
53.26125, 15.55256
Perimeter length
205 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fenced. Private properties.
Preservation condition
Demolished and overbuilt Jewish cemetery
General site condition
Overbuilt Jewish cemetery. The site is currently occupied by private residential buildings and gardens. The Jewish cemetery is not marked in any way.
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 small Jewish cemetery in Recz was probably established in the first half of the 19th century. It was located at Bahnhofstrasse (now Kolejowa Street), on the slope of Judenberg (Żydowska Góra). In 1842, 83 Jews lived in Recz, on the border between Brandenburg and Pomerania, and in 1895 there were only 66 Jews out of approximately 3,200 inhabitants. Despite the fact that the community was not one of the most numerous, it had a cemetery and a small synagogue, both of which were devastated during Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938). The cemetery survived World War II and was not fully destroyed until the beginning of the 1980s. Currently, there is no trace of its existence apart from the preserved old forest.
(West Pomeranian Encyclopedia; http://encyklopedia.szczecin.pl)

The “Recz commune precinct” – fragment of a sketch from 2005 is apparently based on the plan from 1939. It shows what purports to be the “old” and “new” Jewish cemeteries, which, however, does not seem accurate. None of the pre-war maps show two cemeteries in Recz.

Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery
Recz Jewish Cemetery