7. Zamość - Stary cmentarz żydowski (ul. Partyzantów 13)

The Old Cemetery (13 Partyzantów Street)- It was established in the late 16th or early 17th century. Outside the city walls by virtue of a privilege issued by Jan Zamoyski in 1588. In 1804. Hasidic preacher and moralist Yaakov ben Wolf Kranz (born 1740 [1741]), known as the Maggid of Dubno, was buried there. The cemetery area of 2.8 hectares was surrounded by a high fence with a wooden gate.There was a caretaker's house in the cemetery.In 1907. The necropolis was closed by the tsarist authorities for sanitary reasons. During World War II, the Germans dismantled most of the fence and removed the gravestones and set up warehouses in the cemetery. Further devastation of the necropolis occurred in 1945., when a Red Army unit stationed in Zamosc dug pits here to store potatoes.After the war, the cemetery was used as a garbage dump. In the early 1950s, the authorities planned to establish a Jordanian garden here, eventually the Provincial House of Culture was built on part of the cemetery grounds and a square was created.