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Cmentarz Żydowski w Grójcu

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Location	:	Powiat grójecki, Poland
Description	:	The Jewish Cemetery in Grójec (Cmentarz Żydowski w Grójcu) was created in 1794 after the establishment of the Jewish elected council of laymen or kahal in Grójec. Originally it was smaller but an additional plot of land was bought by the Jewish community in 1847, thus enlarging the territory of the cemetery. Nowadays, it has an area of 1,8 ha. It holds several dozen broken masevahs and two monuments. In the period in Polish history that is called the interwar period, spanning the time from the end of the 1st WW until the beginning of WW2, out of the 10 500 inhabitants... Read More	The Jewish Cemetery in Grójec (Cmentarz Żydowski w Grójcu) was created in 1794 after the establishment of the Jewish elected council of laymen or kahal in Grójec. Originally it was smaller but an additional plot of land was bought by the Jewish community in 1847, thus enlarging the territory of the cemetery. Nowadays, it has an area of 1,8 ha. It holds several dozen broken masevahs and two monuments. In the period in Polish history that is called the interwar period, spanning the time from the end of the 1st WW until the beginning of WW2, out of the 10 500 inhabitants of Grójec, 5 200 were of Jewish origin. That makes nearly half of the population. On 1 September 1939 Nazi Germany attacked Poland, thus beginning WW2. One week later, on 8 September, the Wehrmacht was able to take Grójec. The German occupant established its own government in the city with German Werner Zimmermann becoming the administrator of the city. A little 19th century castle in Kobylin ca 2,5 km to the North-East of Grójec was chosen as his seat. The Nazi German occupying Poland started their policy of destroying Jewish life, Jewish communities and Jewish culture. This policy did not spare the Jewish cemeteries either. The Jewish Cemetery in Grójec is one example of the destruction that befell Jewish Cemeteries in occupied Poland. The Germans ordered matsevahs to be taken away from the cemetery. They were used to pave the way to the seat of Zimmermann in Kobylin. The destruction inflicted by "Hitler's willing executioner's" was so thorough that nearly all of the 5 200 Grójec Jews were murdered. As to the cemetery, not one whole matsevah survived WW2 intact. After the end of the war (1945) the cemetery was abandoned and leave to further deteriorate. It became a shooting range. The bodies Jews murdered by Nazi Germans on 15 July 1943 in Chynów near Góra Kalwaria were exhumed there and buried at the Jewish Cemetery in Grójec in 1948. A memorial was placed on top of the new burial site. In 1985 the cemetery held just 28 tombstones. In 1989 the cemetery was entered into the lst of heritage register (entry no: 407/A/89 z 08.05.1989). Several dozen matsevahs were brought back to the cemetery from someone's land in 2019. In 2003 and 2004 the Nissenbaum Family Foundation and the Jewish Comittee of (former) Grójec Residents represented by Mosze Meira Kielmanzon tied the cemetery up. An entrance gate for cars and another smaller one for people was built and surrounded 230 m of the cemetery with a fence. Moreover, a monument to the victims of the Holocaust in the shape of a matsevah and funded by Kielmanzon was erected. The monument has moving inscriptions in Hebrew and in Polish. They read respectively: "In memory of the holy ones. To the cruelty of the years 5699-5705. [In memory] of my father Jakow the son of Eliasz. Of my mother Chaja Sara the daughter of Mordechaj Łęga. Of my sister Bina. Of my brothers Henoch Heniek and Józef Chaim Kielmanzon. Of the families Łęga Holckener. Of the holy Grójec Kahal, of the men, women and newborn babes. From their son who remained alive, Mosze Meir Kielmanzon and his family in Israel. These words of parting are [written] with eyes full of tear: the most important thing is to respect the Shabat and knowledge, the rest will follow automatically" and in Polish: "O Land! Do not cover up my blood and may nothing quell my cry. And he said: What hast thou done? The voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto me from the earth. In memory of the murdered men, women and newborn babes from the Jewish communities in Grójec and in the whole country. Thou wilt rise up and show mercy to Sion." (cemetery entry made and text written by Ivonna Nowicka, in memory of the Grójec Jews, my Jewish Compatriots who perished in the War and whom I miss more and more every year) Sources: Bielawski Krzysztof, "Grójec" on: http://cmentarze-zydowskie.pl/grojec.htm (in Polish) https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmentarz_%C5%BCydowski_w_Gr%C3%B3jcu (in Polish)

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