5. Lubartów - Nowy cmentarz żydowski (ul. Cicha, róg ul. 1 Maja)

New Jewish cemetery (Cicha Street, corner of 1 Maja Street) - Probably as early as 1796., and certainly before 1819., south of the market, in the area of ul. Quiet, a new cemetery was established. In the interwar period it was surrounded by a brick fence.In the interwar period two ohels of unknown rabbis or tzaddikim stood on it. During World War II, the Germans used the matzevot, among others. to pave the courtyard of the school, which housed the Wehrmacht headquarters, while they carried out executions in the cemetery. In 1987. On the initiative of Lubartow regionalists and with the financial support of local authorities, the cemetery was cleaned up and the tree stand was restored. A memorial in the form of a lapidary was also built on the site - 20 tombstones, found on the city's grounds, were incorporated into the erected wall, 10 more tombstones were placed in front of the wall. Photographic documentation of the preserved matzevot has also been made.The 0.8-acre cemetery is regularly vandalized.Vandals have smashed, among other things. matzevot placed in front of the monument.In the 1990s, information boards were erected in the cemetery. In 2006. One Lubartow resident put a broken, nearly 200-kilometer-long matzeva up for sale at an online auction. Thanks to a quick media response, the auction was withdrawn.Holocaust - After occupying the city, the Germans demolished the synagogue and cemetery, looted some Jewish homes.In October 1939. ca. 2500 Jews from Lubartow were displaced to Ostrów Lubelski (850 people), Parczew (634), as well as to Kamionka and Firlej.Most of the displaced managed to return to the city before the end of 1940. There were 818 Jews left in Lubartow, who were forcibly employed in the town.In early January 1940, the Germans established the Judenrat.Its chairman was Jakub Mordko Lichtenfeld, who was soon replaced by David Peretz. A branch of the Jewish Order Service was established at the Judenrat, with 11 members. An open ghetto was established within the area of Żabia, 11 Listopada, Poprzeczna and Lubelska Streets. December 16, 1940. To the ghetto in Lubartow were resettled approx. 1000 Jews from Ciechanowiec, in March 1941. - an unspecified number of Jews from Lublin.In early April 1942. About 250 Jews were displaced from Lubartow to Kamionka, Ostrów and Firlej. The first deportation from the Lubartow ghetto took place on April 9, 1942.About 800 Jews were taken to the Belzec death camp. In their place between April and May 1942. More transports of Jews from Slovakia were resettled in Lubartow (a total of 2421 people). Some of them were displaced to Lublin, where they worked on the construction of the Majdanek camp.In early October 1942. Groups of Jews from Kamionka, Ostrow and Czemierniki were resettled in the crowded ghetto. The second major deportation action took place on October 11, 1942.Approximately 3,000 Jews were then deported from the Lubartow ghetto to the Sobibor death camp. Between 300 and 500 Jews were shot in the cemetery on ul. Silent, many Jews were killed in their homes, on the streets and at the train station.On October 24, 1942, the Germans finally liquidated the ghetto. About 300 Jews were resettled in Sands of Lutsk. About a dozen Jews working in the gendarmerie stable remained in Lubartow. They were all executed on January 29, 1943. At the cemetery on ul. Quiet, in February 1943. while the Germans declared Lubartow a "Jew-free" (Judenfrei) city. During the occupation, the Germans devastated facilities belonging to the Jewish community.