Cmentarz Żydowski

A charming place, you can admire the views of the mountains of Grybów, but if you come down below, the place is not mowed and covered with grass

BEAN The Jewish cemetery in Bobowa was probably founded in the 18th century, on the hillside located about 800 m south of the Market Square, at today's ul. Wichrowa. At present, the cemetery is occupied by the geodetic plot number 120503 4.0001.1054 of an irregular shape and an area of ​​7,435 sq m. The cemetery served as a burial place for the deceased from Bobowa and nearby villages, subordinated to the Bobowa kehilla. In 1905, the funeral of Tzaddik Szlomo, son of Meir Natan Halberstam, took place in the cemetery. His grave, protected with ohel, became the goal of pilgrimages for many pious Jews. During World War I, the War Cemetery No. 385 was erected within the cemetery, where 7 Jewish soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army were buried in 1914-1915: Salomna Gruenbaum, Herman Majlech Klein, Bartalan Rozenberg, Markus Chaim Fragner, Sandor Gleichman (Heichman) Moses Scholl. The name of the seventh soldier is currently unknown. The wartime quarters were arranged by the Cemetery Graves Division of the C. and K. Military Commanders in Krakow. In the years of the Second World War, the cemetery became a place of execution, and people murdered in Bobowa and its vicinity were buried in its area. One of the executions took place on January 5, 1942, and the Germans shot a group of about 17 people. Another 30 people were killed on March 4, 1942. At the cemetery, there were also 5 people buried in the immediate vicinity of the Bobowicz tsaddik, who were shot behind the barn by the head of Bobowa, Kazimierz Długoszewski. The bodies of victims were buried in mass graves. After the war, the abandoned cemetery was destroyed. A monument was erected on the mass grave of the victims of the German executions. In the efforts of Jechiel and Bełżec Kurtz, the ohel of tzaddik Halberstam was rebuilt. In 1988, the Nissenbaum Family Foundation revived the access road to the cemetery, liquidated in the post-war years. The cemetery was cleaned up and fenced with a steel fence on a concrete plinth. The foundation also issued a monument on the collective grave. On the stylized on the matzevot, a vertical inscription engraved with the inscription: "In this place during World War II men, women, children - Polish citizens of Jewish nationality, the Foundation of the Nissenbaum Family, were murdered by the Nazis." In recent years, the Bobowa authorities commissioned the execution of the asphalt surface of the road leading to the cemetery. According to estimates, up to 200 matzevot have been preserved to date in the cemetery. This is probably a small percentage of the pre-war number of tombstones. As a result of the lack of ongoing maintenance and the impact of atmospheric conditions, the condition of some matzevot should be considered bad. Some of them are tilted and threatened with falling, on others one can notice an advanced process of weathering, stratification and peeling of stone layers. To the right of the entrance is a collective grave of the Holocaust victims, surrounded by a metal barrier