זשמיגראד — בית החיים

Żmigród — the Jewish cemetery

Nowy Żmigród · זשמיגראד

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Jewish cemetery, on the hill slope north-east of the town, on the Jasło road, Nowy Żmigród, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland

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1.It is about a kilometre from the market square along the road toward Jasło, on a gentle slope at the north-eastern edge of the town. The ground was opened around the turn of the sixteen hundreds.
2.THIS GROUND IS ITSELF A PLACE OF KEDOSHIM. The Germans used the cemetery as a killing site from 1940 onward — about a hundred and fifty Jews found in hiding were shot in it that year, and there were further shootings through 1941 and 1942, with the murdered buried where they lay. On the seventh of July 1942, the day the kehilla was destroyed, some forty more who had been found hiding were brought up here and shot. Behave in it accordingly.
3.REB SINAI HALBERSTAM IS NOT RECORDED AS BURIED HERE. He led the Sanz-Żmigród branch of the Sanzer line from 1907 and was killed in 1941. No source found says where his kever is, and Żmigród is where he was rebbe rather than where he lies.
4.Żmigród is in the Carpathian foothills between Jasło and Dukla, on the same road as Nowy Sącz and Rymanow rather than a journey of its own.
5.SURVEYED COORDINATES. The map point on this listing is the cemetery itself, measured on the ground by the ESJF survey — not a town centre. Where a kever is inside an ohel it will still need finding once you are through the gate, but the gate is now something you can navigate to.

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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 65 km · 41 mi straight-line· regional
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Košice (KSC)Košice International· 108 km · 67 mi straight-line· regional
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Poprad (TAT)Poprad-Tatry· 111 km · 69 mi straight-line· regional
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