Slawno Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Poland
Region
West Pomeranian Voivodeship
District
Sławno
Settlement
Sławno
Site address
At the junction of Gdańska and Sempołowskiej streets (Sempołowskiej Street is in fact a cemetery alley). The Jewish cemetery is part of the municipal cemetery. Access is through the main gate from Działkowa Street.
GPS coordinates
54.366008, 16.686617
Perimeter length
278 metres
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
It is fenced with different types of fencing (metal mesh, low concrete wall, old brick-made wall). Height is from 30 cm to more than 200 cm.
Preservation condition
Jewish section
General site condition
Demolished but not overbuilt Jewish cemetery, part of the municipal cemetery. Many old trees are preserved. Almost the entire south-western side is fenced with the original old brick wall, a relic of the Jewish section. All remaining tombstones are gathered in the large lapidarium, built in the north-western part of the Jewish section. Some old traces of digging are visible in the ground (in the form of longitudinal depressions corresponding to the size of the graves).
Number of existing gravestones
101 parts of tombstones, including 20, mostly not complete, matzevot are gathered in the lapidarium.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
Low
Land ownership
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No

Historical overview

The Jewish cemetery in Sławno was established in the first half of the 19th century at Stolper Vorstadt (now Gdańska Street), next to the new municipal cemetery. Although the Sławno community was numerous (in 1843 it had 208 people, in 1871 the city was inhabited by 250 Jews, and in 1905 there were 144), due to the constant lack of funds, it did not have a funeral home. However, in 1904, the area of ​​the cemetery was extended to an area of ​​about 0.4 ha, and a new stone cemetery wall was built.

The necropolis was devastated during Kristallnacht (November 9-10, 1938). In the following years, the increasingly devastated Jewish cemetery in the 1960s was deprived of the matzevot that had been used to build roads. Today, one can find fragments of tombstones and several fully preserved matzevot, there is also a cemetery wall. In 1999, a memorial plaque made by the sculptor Zygmunt Wujek from Koszalin was unveiled: “In memory of the Jewish Community living in the vicinity of Sławno since 1812. In 1938, the Nazis burned down all synagogues and destroyed the tombstones. By 1942, all Jews were expelled from Sławno, most of them to the death camps in the east. Only the ruins of the cemetery remain.

Source: West Pomeranian Encyclopedia; http://encyklopedia.szczecin.pl/)

Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery
Sławno Jewish Cemetery