Jewish Cemetery in Lubliniec

The Jewish cemetery in Lubliniec lies on 11 Listopada Street. The Jewish community acquired the land for the cemetery on 28 May 1845, and the necropolis was in use until 1939. The cemetery covers 0.15 ha.

History of the necropolis

The original plot measured 15 by 12 rods and was enlarged in 1865. Over a hundred years 1,117 deceased of the Jewish faith were buried here. The cemetery was divided into three plots: children, community dignitaries and other deceased were buried separately. Among those buried were the grandparents of Edith Stein, Adelheid and Salomon Courant, and her two older brothers, who died in childhood. Nearby is the Edith Stein Museum.

Surviving features

The site is surrounded by a red brick wall with two gates: through one the bodies were brought to the ritual rooms, through the other the funeral participants left the cemetery. A single-storey building has survived, which housed the mortuary, the chapel, the room for ritual washing and the gravedigger's dwelling.

After the war

After the Second World War the cemetery was devastated. From 1970 a driving school of the League of National Defence operated on its grounds. At the end of the 1980s a small monument topped with a Star of David was built from surviving fragments of gravestones (matzevot), and a plaque about the site of the cemetery was placed in the tomb chapel of the Koenigsberg family. Today there is a lapidarium of surviving matzevot on the site. In 2007 the city authorities tidied the site.

Practical information

• Address: 11 Listopada Street in Lubliniec.
• This is a burial place, and conduct appropriate to the place is expected. Check the conditions of entry with the town office before your visit.