Slubice (Frankfurt community) Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Lubusz Voivodeship
District
Słubice
Settlement
Słubice
Site address
Between road 29 and road 137 (Transportowa and Słubicka str), opposite side of the road from 6, Transportowa Street, 130 meters North-West from 8, Transportowa Street.
GPS coordinates
52.3392199, 14.5872259
Perimeter length
711 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
The cemetery is partially fenced by a concrete wall about 1.2 meters high and partially fenced by an iron wall about 1.5 meters high.
Preservation condition
Fenced and protected Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The cemetery is in quite overgrown and neglected condition.
Number of existing gravestones
8 and a dozen of fragments.
Date of oldest tombstone
1792
Date of newest tombstone
1811
Urgency of erecting a fence
Low
Land ownership
Private
Preserved construction on site
Memorial.
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
The Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt was located in the area of today's Słubice at present Transportowa Street. The first reference to the cemetery dates back to July 2, 1399. That day, the town council issued a document which stated that "We, the members of Frankfurt council, state openly in this document to everybody who can see, hear or read it that the Jews bury their relatives on the Jewish Mountain (Judenberg).
For many years, the Jews led by New York Rabbi Berel Polatsky sought to change it. In 1985, the Listed Building Protection Office in Poland considered the cemetery a listed building. In 1988, the burial ground was cleaned up by the Nissenbaum Foundation. In 1999, at the initiative of the citizens of Frankfurt and Słubice, a memorial plaque resembling matzeva was unveiled. An important turning point was the intervention of American Jews with the then Polish prime minister Leszek Miller during one of his visits to the US. Shortly afterwards, the night club was shut down and the Polish government financed the purchase of the cemetery's site.
