| GORZOW SLASKI: Opole |
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US Commission No. POCE000166 Alternate name: Landsberg (German). Gorzow Slaski is located 60km from Czestochowa Poland at 51º02 18º26. The cemetery is located at Zawodzki Street. Present town population is 1,000 and 5,000 people with no Jews.
The earliest known Jewish community was 19th century. The Orthodox Jewish cemetery was probably established in the first quarter of the 19th century. The isolated urban flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. A continuous fence with no gate surrounds. No gravestones are visible. Vegetation overgrowth is a constant problem. The municipality owns the cemetery property used for waste dumping. Properties adjacent are recreational. Rarely, local residents visit. It was vandalized during World War II, but not in the last ten years. Jan Pawel Woronczak, Sandomierska St. 21 m.1, 02-567 Warsaw, tel: 49-54-62 completed survey on 28/01/1992 using information obtained in Praszka (a town near Gorzow). |
| Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 May 2009 11:43 |


