Historic sites
house of prayer from 1880, rebuilt after the war, today in the hands of the scouts
a cemetery founded in 1911, with a funeral home and about 200 gravestones
Cemeteries and monuments
an 18th-century Jewish cemetery in Kromołów with about 920 matzevot bearing inscriptions in three languages
Jewish heritage in Zawiercie means the synagogue of 1880 and two Jewish cemeteries: one in the town centre and one in Kromołów.
These three sites preserve the memory of the town's former Jewish community. The synagogue is disused and heavily altered, while the cemeteries are burial grounds, so visitors should behave with respect.
Start with the synagogue in Zawiercie, a brick prayer house of 1880 at Marszałkowska 41, built on a rectangular plan. It has no religious function today. The structure has been much changed and needs repair, so treat it as something to view from the street.
Two cemeteries complete the picture. The Jewish cemetery in Zawiercie, an area of roughly 0.6 ha off Daszyńskiego street, still has its pre-burial house, mortuary and some two hundred tombstones. The Kromołów kirkut, found on Piaskowa street, goes back to the 1700s, holds some 920 matzevot and is entered in the monument register. A separate article on the ghettos in Będzin, Sosnowiec and Zawiercie describes the occupation period.
No. The building has no religious function, is heavily altered and needs renovation.
Kromołów, from the 18th century. The cemetery off Daszyńskiego street dates from 1911, though a possible earlier origin in the 1700s is mentioned. Further places are listed under Jewish heritage in Silesia.
