Midowa Cemetery
Also known as Cmentarz Żydowski w Krakowie - Nowy , New Jewish Cemetery , Nowy Cmentarz Zydowski
Kraków, Miasto Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
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Midowa cemetery was established in 1800, outside the area known as Kazimierz, on land purchased from Monks by the Jewish community. The cemetery is walled in with a locked gate. It has a purification room near the gate. Today on the ground floor of the purification building are artifacts which were used in the purification of the deceased. There are over 7,000 gravestones in the cemetery with most of the inscriptions on the memorials are in Hebrew. The oldest monuments date from the 1840s. This cemetery has been in use since its establishment and until this day, with the exception of the Holocaust period when it was descrated and used as a training ground for Third Reich soldiers.
In 1957 the cemetery was restored and a memorial was built of broken pieces from gravestones brought from different places in Poland, in memory of the martyrs of the Holocaust. This cemetery is monitored by the Association of Cracowians in Israel.
Midowa cemetery was established in 1800, outside the area known as Kazimierz, on land purchased from Monks by the Jewish community. The cemetery is walled in with a locked gate. It has a purification room near the gate. Today on the ground floor of the purification building are artifacts which were used in the purification of the deceased. There are over 7,000 gravestones in the cemetery with most of the inscriptions on the memorials are in Hebrew. The oldest monuments date from the 1840s. This cemetery has been in use since its establishment and until this day, with the exception of the Holocaust period when it was descrated and used as a training ground for Third Reich soldiers.
In 1957 the cemetery was restored and a memorial was built of broken pieces from gravestones brought from different places in Poland, in memory of the martyrs of the Holocaust. This cemetery is monitored by the Association of Cracowians in Israel.
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- Total memorials42
- Percent photographed60%
- Percent with GPS0%
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- Total memorials2
- Percent photographed50%
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- Total memorials2
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Kraków, Miasto Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
- Total memorials35
- Percent photographed74%
- Percent with GPS54%
- Added: 9 Jun 2007
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2219897
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