Skip To Content
JEWISH. INDEPENDENT. NONPROFIT.
Breaking News

Polish Town Plans Memorial on Jewish Cemetery Site

An organization in Wronki, Poland, is creating a lapidarium-style memorial at the site of a destroyed Jewish cemetery in town.

The project of the Wronki Jewish Lapidarium Association involves about 800 Jewish gravestones or fragments recovered several years ago from two cemeteries razed by the Nazis during World War II. It aims to piece together broken stones and arrange them in several areas of the cemetery site.

The gravestones and fragments had been documented last year and put into order by students from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Two local historians and inmates from a nearby prison aided the effort.

Most of the approximately $20,000 in financing for the memorial has been secured, mainly via European Union funds, according to the association.

The group is crowdsourcing the final funding via a Polish website that is similar to Kickstarter.

Poland’s chief rabbi and the Roman Catholic archbishop of Poznan, as well as municipal officials, are backing the memorial.

Republish This Story

Please read before republishing

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. You must credit the Forward, retain our pixel and preserve our canonical link in Google search.  See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs.

To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. It does not include images; to avoid copyright violations, you must add them manually, following our guidelines. Please email us at [email protected], subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up.

We don't support Internet Explorer

Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site.