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Solec nad Wisla Jewish Cemetery

Cemetery Information

Country
Poland
Region
Masovian Voivodeship
District
Lipski
Settlement
Solec Nad Wisla
Site address
The Jewish cemetery is situated in a wooded area along Polna Street on the north western outskirts of Solec Nad Wisla. The cemetery is located 450m west of 6, Polna Street, on the right hand side.
GPS coordinates
51.1394252, 21.7566472
Perimeter length
182 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
no
Type and height of existing fence
No fence
Preservation condition
Unfenced Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The Jewish Cemetery of Solec Nad Wisla is located in a rural area on the north western outskirts of the town. The cemetery area is badly overgrown with trees, dense shrubs and tall wild grasses. The site has no maintenance and no signs of the cemetery remain. Only a couple of fragments of tombstones have been preserved.
Number of existing gravestones
6. There are two tombstones (one standing and one lying fragment) with inscriptions in Hebrew and 4 pieces, which may have been pedestals.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
State
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
Yes

Historical overview

The first records of Jews in Solec nad Wisłą (Solec on the Vistula River) date to the 17th century, though Jewish settlement only began to significantly develop in the 19th century. In 1921, 735 Jews lived in the town (43.6% of the total population), most of whom were murdered at the end of 1942 by the Germans in Treblinka. The cemetery is located about 700 metres (m) northwest of the market square, on a small hill, among arable fields, on the eastern side of Polna Street and covers a plot of land (shaped like a parallelogram) measuring approximately 30 x 66 m. The cemetery was established around 1889 when the synagogue supervision in Solec nad Wisłą was founded. In the interwar period, there was a limestone fence surrounding the cemetery. The cemetery was in use until World War II. Among the last people to be buried were Jankiel Dawidson, who was shot by German gendarmes on April 1, 1942, and four people of unknown identity, shot on October 28, 1943.

The cemetery presumably fell into disrepair during the war and continued to degrade through the following decades. On November 15, 1962, the Presidium of the City National Council in Lipsko adopted a resolution to close the cemetery (then covering 0.2 hectares). The ordinance was signed by the Minister of Municipal Economy on June 26, 1964. As a result of the cemetery’s ruined state, only single destructed sandstone stelae have been recovered. The borders are partially visible as some ruins of the earth embankment and stone wall remain. The area is overgrown with trees and dense shrubs. There is no form of commemoration of any kind. The pediment of the matzevah of Yitzchak, son of Yehuda, who died on April 9, 1906, was placed in front of the Parish Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Solec nad Wisłą, next to the monument of John Paul II. The owner of the cemetery is the Company for the Development of the Land Community in Solec nad Wisłą. The cemetery is listed in the Provincial Register of Monuments, and it is not listed in the Register of Immovable Monuments of the Mazowieckie Province.

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