Jewish cemetery on Lotnicza Street in Wroclaw English

Jewish cemetery on Lotnicza Street in Wroclaw English version – especially for my Grandpa

Lotnicza cemetery was found in 1902. Untill the Second World War it was German cemetery, now it serves Polish Jews.

The gate

There used to be a great chapel and a funeral house – connected by twenty meters long arcaded cloister. This chapel was destroyed after the Second World War.

The funeral house

Behind those doors there was a chapel. . .

On this cemetery there’s a field dedicated to Jewish soldiers from Wroclaw who died during the First World War. On the top of this field we can see the oval monument with 432 names of soldiers.

A tombstone of soldier who died during the battle of Vallendar.

There’s a lot of family tombs.

The ohel where Mina Cira Majzel is buried.

There’s also an unique urn field with lots of tombstones of different shapes.

One of the sadest places of this cemetery – infant field. Infants didn’t have tombstone, but only small plates with names. Almost all of those plates were stolen after the Second World War.

It’s also place of great architecture.

The Polish part of cemetery – tombstones from 1945 -1960

A tombstone from 1967 with dedication for relatives murdered during Holocaust.

A tombstone of a woman who was born with one name and lived after the war with changed name. It isn’t rare case as regards Polish Jews. On the tombstone are mentioned relatives of this woman who were murdered during Holocaust.

A German tombstone with information about the fate of two members of family. One of them was deported to Theresienstadt in 1943, the other to East in 1941.

A post-war tombstone with names of members one family who were murdered in Treblinka.

Unfortunately this cemetery is being devastated. . .

. . . the nature and wild trees rule more than people do. . .

The children field

In January 2007 there was a big storm in Wroclaw. It caused lots of damages also on the cemetery.

But we cannot give up! Everything depends on us and our willingness of making something good. This place need our help.

Working prisoners.

Gosia’s cleaning. . .

. . . more Gosia’s work.

The pavement before and after cleaning.

There’s no wall, there’s the one!

It’s also very romantic place, where each of us can feel history of people and city.

See you there! Made by Gosia, 2007