Cemeteries and monuments
18th-century cemetery in Modrzejów with about three hundred gravestones, the oldest dating from 1790
Jewish cemetery in Milowice with several dozen surviving gravestones
Cemeteries and monuments
Jewish cemetery with about 300 surviving gravestones and a monument to the murdered
Jewish heritage in Sosnowiec means three cemeteries, in Modrzejów, Rudna and Milowice. All were destroyed during the war.
The gravestones survive in different numbers, and the rules of entry and care differ from site to site, so it is worth checking them before a visit.
On Pastewna Street in Modrzejów lies the Old Jewish Cemetery. Burials took place there as early as the eighteenth century, and the earliest gravestone to survive is dated 1790. The Second World War left it devastated, and it was tidied and walled in only during the 1980s and 1990s. Some three hundred headstones or pieces of them remain.
In Rudna, at 1 Gospodarcza Street, is the new Jewish cemetery, a section of the multi-faith cemetery. It covers about a hectare within a wall. Around three hundred headstones have come down from the war years, and a memorial to the murdered Jews stands there.
The Newest Cemetery on Stalowa Street in Milowice was probably founded in the interwar period. It was destroyed during and after the war, and a few dozen gravestones remain. Historical background is given in the text on the ghettos in Będzin, Sosnowiec and Zawiercie, and a wider overview is in the section on Jewish heritage and the page for Sosnowiec.
The Old Cemetery in Modrzejów, which already existed in the eighteenth century.
The Jewish Religious Community in Katowice. For the other cemeteries, ask the city office or the religious community about entry rules.
