10. Międzyrzec Podlaski - Nowy cmentarz żydowski (ul. Brzeska 90)

New Jewish cemetery (90 Brzeska St.) - Established in 1810. Opposite the new Christian cemetery, a short distance from the old Jewish cemetery.In the xixth century. was at least doubled in size. It was destroyed during World War II, while the matzevot from it were used to pave roads. In 1956. The necropolis was cleaned up and surrounded by a wall, restoration work was also carried out in the 1990s.There are approx. The 1,000 tombstones are made of granite and sandstone, as well as several cast-iron tombstones dating from 1833-1846 and 1933-1942, made at the Międzyrzecz ironworks owned by the Szejmel family. These are the only surviving matzevot of their kind in the Lublin region.The cemetery also contains graves from the post-war years. In 1973. Moshe Kaufman was buried here - it was the last burial in this cemetery. In 1946. Thanks to the financial support of Abraham and Sarah Finkelsztajn of New York, fragments of 30 matzevot from the old cemetery have been collected at the cemetery, the oldest of which dates to 1708., and numerous matzevot from the new cemetery. They are built into the wall surrounding the necropolis and form a kind of Wall of Remembrance.At the gate of the cemetery is the building of the pre-burial house.After the war it was adapted into housing. There are two memorials to Holocaust victims in the cemetery.Holocaust - In October 1939. Along with the Red Army, more than 2,000 Jews, mostly young men, escaped from Międzyrzec beyond the Bug River. In December 1940. The Germans established a Judenrat, with Szymon Klarberg as chairman. In 1939. Groups of Jews from Nasielsk, Rypin, Suwałki, Serock and Kalisz were resettled to Miedzyrzec, in December of the following year - from Krakow and Mlawa, as well as a group of Jews from Vienna. In March 1942. About 750 Jews from Mielec were sent to Miedzyrzec, and in May - 1,025 from Slovakia.On May 25, 1942, the Germans deported about 800 Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp. On August 25 and 26, they executed several hundred sick and infirm in the market square, while deporting another 11,000 to Treblinka. August 28, 1942. A ghetto was established in the Szmulowizna district, where the city's remaining Jews, many of whom were employed in local labor camps, were concentrated. Soon, Jews from Radzyn, Wohynia and Parczew counties (September and October) and Radzyn (October) were relocated to the ghetto. In three successive deportation actions (October 6-9, October 27, November 7-8), most of them were taken to the Treblinka extermination camp and the Majdanek concentration camp. In November 1942, the Germans created a residual ghetto, where they concentrated several thousand Jews from the Radzyn district and a group of brush cutters from the Warsaw ghetto. Some Jews were deported to Treblinka, some to labor camps, and the rest (May 26, 1943) - to Majdanek. The final liquidation of the ghetto took place between July 17 and 19, 1943.The Germans shot then about. 200 people in the local Jewish cemetery, while another 100 - in the suburb of Piaski, where the victims were buried in a mass grave by the highway.Exhumation of the remains of the murdered was carried out in 1946. In the summer of 1943. began to demolish the Jewish quarter along with the buildings of the synagogue complex.Tombstones from Jewish cemeteries were used for construction purposes.