Pyskowice, Peiskretscham, Pieskretscham. 50°24' N 18°38' E, 163.5 miles SW of Warszawa. This town in Silesia  in the Silesian Highlands in southern Poland near Katowice borders on the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, a metropolis with a population of 2,000,000 in the Silesian Voivodeship since 1999, previously in Katowice Voivodeship. The population of the town is 19,104 (2008). photos. photo.  [June 2009]

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CEMETERY: Established before 1841 with the last burial in 1920., the oldest gravestone dates from 1841 with a total of over randomly arranged 100 matzevot visible, but only about twenty gravestones in original location. Local authoritities have cleaned and fenced the site located at ul. Zaolszyny 12. Video.Cemetery photos [June 2009]

US Commission No. 000558. In Katowickie. The US Commission is not finished rechecking this file. [2000]