7. Włodawa - Nowy cmentarz żydowski (pomiędzy ulicami Mielczarskiego, Jana Pawła II i Reymonta)

New cemetery (between Mielczarskiego, Jana Pawła II and Reymonta streets) - It was established in the 19th century. On an area of 3 hectares after the closure of the cemetery on ul. Rural. During World War II, the Germans destroyed the necropolis, and after the war the cemetery area was used by local people as a pasture. Several post-war burials took place here, including. in 1952. - The funeral of Jewish partisan Henry Giejer (Hershl Wirker).After 1956. The local authorities turned the cemetery into a city park. From the side of the street. In recent years, the St. John Paul II cemetery has preserved traces of one grave.In recent years, a monument has been erected in the cemetery and plaques have been set up to provide information about the site's past. The four surviving tombstones (the oldest dated 1919) have been transferred to the Leczna-Wlodawa Lake District Museum.Holocaust - In April 1940. The Germans established a Judenrat in Wlodawa, with Szyja Zumer as its chairman, in January 1941. while a ghetto was established between Solna (now Czerwonego Krzyża), Okunińska and Furmańska Streets, to which the Germans resettled approx. 5500-6500 Jews from Wlodawa and the surrounding area, about 800 Jews from Krakow and Mielec and about 1000 from Vienna.From 1941. at. A forced labor camp for Jews operated in Wyrykowska Street. The inmates worked at drying the so-called "dryer". cow swamp, Wlodawa pond, at the regulation of the Tarasienka and Wlodawka rivers. Even before the ghetto was closed, many Wlodawa Jews escaped from the city and joined partisan units fighting in the surrounding forests. The extermination of Wlodawa's Jews in the extermination camp in nearby Sobibor began at the end of May 1942.During the first deportation carried out on May 23, approx. 1200 people from the Wlodawa ghetto.In the summer, during another action, several hundred children were deported.Between October 24 and 30, 1942. About 5500 Jews were sent to Sobibor. The next deportation took place on November 6, 1942.By the end of April 1943. There was a labor camp in Wlodawa, which housed about 2,200 people. The ghetto was eventually liquidated on April 30, 1943. - All the Jews in it were deported to the Sobibor death camp. In a fire that broke out in June 1943., most of the ghetto's buildings burned down.