Midowa Cemetery
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Midowa Cemetery

Also known as New Jewish Cemetery , Cmentarz Żydowski w Krakowie - Nowy , Nowy Cmentarz Zydowski

Kraków, Miasto Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland

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  • Get directions 55 Midowa Sreet
    Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland
    Coordinates: 50.05304, 19.95303
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Located at Miodowa 55. Walk down Miodowa under the overpass and you will see the cemetery to the left.



Midowa cemetery was established in 1800, outside the area known as Kazimierz, on land purchased from Monks by the Jewish community. The cemetery is walled in with a locked gate. It has a purification room near the gate. Today on the ground floor of the purification building are artifacts which were used in the purification of the deceased. There are over 7,000 gravestones in the cemetery with most of the inscriptions on the memorials are in Hebrew. The oldest monuments date from the 1840s. This cemetery has been in use since its establishment and until this day, with the exception of the Holocaust period when it was descrated and used as a training ground for Third Reich soldiers.



In 1957 the cemetery was restored and a memorial was built of broken pieces from gravestones brought from different places in Poland, in memory of the martyrs of the Holocaust. This cemetery is monitored by the Association of Cracowians in Israel.





Located at Miodowa 55. Walk down Miodowa under the overpass and you will see the cemetery to the left.



Midowa cemetery was established in 1800, outside the area known as Kazimierz, on land purchased from Monks by the Jewish community. The cemetery is walled in with a locked gate. It has a purification room near the gate. Today on the ground floor of the purification building are artifacts which were used in the purification of the deceased. There are over 7,000 gravestones in the cemetery with most of the inscriptions on the memorials are in Hebrew. The oldest monuments date from the 1840s. This cemetery has been in use since its establishment and until this day, with the exception of the Holocaust period when it was descrated and used as a training ground for Third Reich soldiers.



In 1957 the cemetery was restored and a memorial was built of broken pieces from gravestones brought from different places in Poland, in memory of the martyrs of the Holocaust. This cemetery is monitored by the Association of Cracowians in Israel.





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