Cmentarze i pomniki: Zawiercie

Cemeteries in Zawiercie: the parish burial ground on Cmentarna street, the kirkut on Daszyńskiego street and the old Jewish cemetery in Kromołów.

The three burial places are quite unlike one another: one is still in use, and the other two recall the former Jewish community. They are places for reflection, so calm behaviour is expected.

Where are the dead buried in Zawiercie today?

At the Roman Catholic cemetery on Cmentarna street. Its beginnings are tied to building the local church, and burials have continued since 1903 under the care of the parish of Saints Peter and Paul. Its features include a chapel of 1934, a memorial to fallen soldiers and the graves of Zawiercie's notable citizens.

What is left of Zawiercie's Jews?

The kirkut on Daszyńskiego street spans about 0.6 hectares and was established in 1911. A funeral-preparation house and a mortuary stand there still, along with roughly two hundred gravestones.

The Kromołów cemetery on Piaskowa street is older, laid out in the 18th century and entered in the monument register. On a plot just under half a hectare stand about 920 matzevot, Jewish tombstones, the oldest from the middle of the 18th century.

Frequently asked questions

Where to read about the wartime fate of Zawiercie's Jews?

In an article on the ghettos of the Zagłębie region.

Where to go after the cemeteries?

To the monuments, the churches or the parks. The town: Zawiercie, and the whole region: cemeteries and monuments in Silesia.