Susz Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
District
Iława
Settlement
Susz
Site address
Adjacent to Osiedle Leśne, 3-5. Susz. The cemetery is located on a forested hill on the backyard of private residential houses 3-5 of Osiedle Leśne (the Leśne Estate). The access road to the cemetery area is between Leśna Street, 3A/3B and Osiedle Leśne Street, 1.
GPS coordinates
53.719361, 19.355017
Perimeter length
176 metres. The perimeter is indicative, the boundaries of the cemetery are completely blurred, and there are no other sources to precisely define it (the geodetic plot on which the cemetery is located covers the entire nearby forest area of over 115,000 square meters). It is only known that the cemetery in this place had a rectangular shape with an area of about 0.15 hectares and that it adjoined an alley that has survived to this day.
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fence.
Preservation condition
Demolished Jewish cemetery that has not been built over
General site condition
Jewish cemetery of Susz is situated on a forested hill on the eastern outskirts of the town. The cemetery is demolished, only old cemetery alley survived. No traces of the former cemetery preserved, no tombstones, boundaries are completely blurred. The area is not marked as a former jewish cemetery.
Number of existing gravestones
No tombstones preserved.
Date of oldest tombstone
N/A
Date of newest tombstone
N/A
Urgency of erecting a fence
High
Land ownership
Forestry
Preserved construction on site
No
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
In 1803 Josef Elias Hirsch bought a plot of land for 6 thalers with the intention of establishing a cemetery there. It was located outside the city, slightly south of the road leading to Jerzwałd and Zalewo. However, it was not until 1853, after the area was expanded by the heir of Hirsch, that the burial of the dead began here. The cemetery was rectangular with an area of about 0.15 ha. Even in the 1950s, there were tombstones on it. Only the wooded space between Leśna Street and Osiedle Leśne (the Leśne Estate), with the relics of the alleys and the fence, has survived to this day. (sztetl.org.pl)
Eyewitnesses recalled that many monuments were removed from the cemetery by newly arrived Polish people in the 1950s and later.
(Seweryn Szczepański, cmentarze-zydowskie.pl)
