Jewish cemetery on Tadeusza Kosciuszko Street - entered in the register of monuments of the Podkarpackie province in 1990 under registration number A-567. The cemetery was establishedwives in the first quarter of the 18th century and occupies an area of 0.3 hectares (originally 0.71 hectares), on which 1,665 tombstones (35 of them from the 18th century) have survived. The fence was erected in 1930 from the foundation of Josef Hirsz Reinfeld (a Lubaczow Jew residing permanently in the USA). The cemetery is located on Kosciuszki St. in the neighborhood of the Catholic cemetery. In the cemetery there is a mass grave and a plaque commemorating 950 Jews killed by the Germans in 1942 in the Jewish cemetery. The cemetery is one of the most interesting Jewish necropolises in Poland. It is surrounded by a wall, and a gate with wrought iron gates, originally decorated with gilded lions, leads to its territory. Currently there are about 150 stone matzevot in the cemetery, the oldest of which date back to the first quarter of the 17th century.The matzevot are of great artistic value, they are richly decorated with interesting bas-reliefs,some of them bear traces of polychrome. Among them, a matzeva made of white limestone with a beautiful bas-relief deserves special attention.
29.10.2015
