Cmentarz żydowski

ארי' דבי עילאי Rabbi of Brigel is buried here.

Climate and quiet place. With a high emotional load.

A neat, atmospheric place.

The Jewish kehilla in Brzesko possessed two burial sites. The first Jewish cemetery was established at today's ul. Glowacki. It served burial functions until the mid-nineteenth century. The cemetery was destroyed during the Second World War, and the works of devastation were completed in the years of the Polish People's Republic. Today, there is a car park in this place. In view of the complete filling of this necropolis, in the 19th century a new cemetery was established, located at ul. Czarnowiejska. The exact date of establishing the cemetery is unknown. Some researchers report 1846, although this date seems to contradict matzevot dated to earlier years. Several hundred matzevot have been preserved in the cemetery. The oldest identified gravestone dates from 1823 or 1824 and commemorates a woman named Itel. The youngest grave is located just at the entrance, in the burial place of the late April 10, 1960, Jadwiga Ziarnecka, the daughter of Naftali Herc. There is also a division between male and female quarters characteristic of Jewish cemeteries. The graves of women are located on the left side of the graveyard alley, men's graves - on the right. During World War I, a military cemetery No. 275 was erected within the necropolis, where 21 soldiers of Jewish origin were buried. In the mid-1990s, thanks to the involvement of Sender Waksman and the Eisen family from New York, a second ohel was erected at the cemetery. It protects the graves of Efraim Templer who died in 1938, who led a prayer house at ul. short; his father Baruch, son of Pinchas; uncle of Abraham Eliezer, son of Pinchas, who served in Brzesko as the shames; and the grandfather of Pinchas Templer. Unlike many other Jewish cemeteries in Poland, the Brest necropolis has not been completely destroyed. At the initiative of Rabbi Mendel Reichberg, cleaning works were carried out, and thanks to the financial support of the local authorities, the cemetery wall was repaired. Before being forgotten, the cemetery saved, among others, the efforts of Iwona Zawadzka from the Bochnia Muzeum im. St. Fischer, who devoted several of her publications to the cemetery in Brzesko, among others a book called the Jewish Cemetery in Brzesko.

Full of reverie, memory and history.