3. Tarnogród - Cmentarz żydowski (Przedmieście Różanieckie, ul. Stroma)

Jewish cemetery (Różaniec Suburb, Stroma Street) - The privilege to establish a cemetery was granted to the Jews of Tarnogród in 1683., but the cemetery, located behind the ravine, east of the synagogue and the market, probably existed from 1588. On its grounds, fenced with a wooden fence, stood the pre-burial house and the watchman's apartment.There were two ohels from the 19th century. and one built after 1935. The cemetery was almost completely devastated by the Germans during World War II.In November 1942. On its territory, the Germans carried out a mass execution of the Jewish population. After the war, the empty area of the cemetery was used by the local State Agricultural Farm.In 1985-1986, on the initiative of the Jewish Schorer family, the 1.8-hectare cemetery was fenced and trees were planted there. Matzevot found in the city were brought to the site.More than 220 matzevot were embedded in the fence.There is a memorial to the Jews of Tarnogrod, murdered by the Germans in 1942. This monument and two others, standing at the sites of executions (Kosciuszko Street and Nadstawna Street), were erected on the initiative of the Schorer family and Charles Schreiber.Holocaust - After the Germans occupied Tarnogrod, part of the town, including the Jewish quarter, was burned down. The first mass execution of Jews took place then.In early 1941. Judenrat was established, in May 1942. while a ghetto was established.There were approx. 3,000 Jews, including more than 2,500 Jews from the city and surrounding villages, displaced persons from Lodz, Wloclawek, Kalisz, Bilgoraj and Austria.The liquidation of the ghetto began on November 2, 1942. Behind the houses on ul. Kosciuszko and at the local Jewish cemetery, the Germans shot about 800-1000 men, women and children.Their bodies were buried on the embankment, on Kosciuszko Street. Różaniecka and the Jewish cemetery. The remaining residents of the ghetto were driven by the Germans to Bilgoraj, from where they deported them to the Belzec extermination camp.During the war, a total of about 2,600 Jews of Tarnogrod were killed, of which about. 1,600 were shot on the spot, and about 1,000 died in the Belzec death camp.