Auschwitz - A small place near Krakow.-Synonymous with the greatest mass murder and shame of the "civilized" world. 

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In Miodowa Street in the east of Kaziemierz, lies the „new“ Jüdische cemetery. It was built in 1800, and also in this cemetery gravestones were smashed during the German occupation. A monument was erected from these broken slabs right next to the entrance. On this cemetery even today funerals take place.

In the Jüdischen address book Berlin 1931/32 the following entry is found: Goldschmidt Ivan, Bellevuestraße 8

The Old Synagogue is the eternal, dignified and only well-preserved testimony of the presence of Jews in the city. The first information about them appeared once in 1576 in the treasury accounts, when they paid the poll tax for ten people. But they must have lived here before, according to a town document from 1592, which mentions that their cemetery is ancient, which means that it was very old at that time.

In the Kölner address book 1925 the following entries can be found: Cohen Bernhard, Wittwe, see Kölner Schuhbedarfs-Vertriebsgesellschaft, Hansaring 104.                                       -  Kölner Schuhbedarfs-Vertriebsgesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung - ( Geschäftsf: Ww. Bernh. Cohen, née Hess ), Hansaring 104, tel. anno 2260, PSK. 17 700,

Only a few kilometers south of Kaziemierz there were two Jewish cemeteries on the Ulica Abrahama in Plaszow. One was located on the Ulica Abrahama. It has not been preserved. Another cemetery was located in the north of the camp area. The grave slabs were removed, only the borders of the graves are preserved.

From 1890 was buried in the new Jewish cemetery in the east of the suburb Ziskov. The cemetery is still used by Prague Jews today. Next to old gravestones we can find steles commemorating the expulsion of Jüdic communities by the Nazis.

Hamburgisches Adressbuch 1886 - Alphabetisches Einwohnerverzeichnis - Sommer Israel, Darmhandlung, Mühlenstraße 47

The new cemetery was inaugurated in 1943. He also adjoins the municipal cemetery, but östlich. He is so far occupied with about 400 Gräber

In the front part of the new cemetery is a mortuary. While one finds also obelisks and other forms as well as decorations with the gravestones in the old cemetery, the present orthodox adjustment of the municipality is recognizable also at the einförmigen and unadorned gravestones of the new cemetery.