Wloclawek Old Jewish Cemetery
Cemetery Information
Country
Poland
Region
Kuyavian-Pomeranian
District
Włocławek
Settlement
Włocławek
Site address
Nowomiejska Street.
GPS coordinates
52.64427, 19.066
Perimeter length
691 meters
Is the cemetery demolished
yes
Type and height of existing fence
No fence.
Preservation condition
Demolished and overbuilt Jewish cemetery
General site condition
The area is overbuilt by several living blocks of flats and a school. Outside the school a stylized matzevot monument commemorating the victims of the Holocaust was built and unveiled on June 15, 2001 with the inscription: "In this area, the Germans created the ghetto from which they deported Polish citizens of Jewish nationality to extermination camps in 1942."
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
Municipality
Preserved construction on site
Memorial.
Drone surveys
No
Historical overview
Founded in 1830 on the current ul. Nowomiejskiej, Nazi occupiers destroyed it. Until the mid-1960s, scattered fragments of matzevot and all marble and sandstone slabs with legible insciptions in English, Hebrew and Yiddish in the cemetery and its immediate surroundings were the prey of thieves--craftsmen-masons, who reused them for new gravestones. Sandstone matzevot became whetstones. Eventually, schools used it for a sports field.
