Renovation work in Poland finds 60 Jewish tombstones near old Gestapo building

June 19, 2022 by JNS
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Dozens of Jewish tombstones were discovered this week in the Polish town of Radzyń Podlaski (also known as Radin), about 35 miles from Lublin, near a building that had been used as headquarters for the Gestapo during the years of World War II and the Holocaust.

Shul in Izbica, a village in Krasnystaw County of the Lublin Voivodeship in eastern Poland. Credit: Melecheitan via Wikimedia Commons

The tombstones were found during renovations in the area. Historians and Catholic priests have taken control of the site and are asking the landowners to stop construction.

“We’ve moved the gravestones to a secure place,” Zbigniew Smolko told Haaretz. The journalist, historian and vice president of the local council said that the Nazis took “tombstones from Jewish cemeteries and used them to pave a courtyard.”

Meir Bulka, who heads the organization J-nerations that works to preserve Polish-Jewish heritage, said: “This is a sensational discovery. About 60 tombstones were found here— most of them intact—and the inscriptions on them are legible.”

The town had once been the centre of the Radzyń Chassidic dynasty; many descendants now live in the United States and Bnei Brak, Israel.

JNS

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