THE ZOLYNIA CEMETERY

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Wrecked and dismantled during the war, there now exist some remaining headstones or pieces of headstones from the Jewish cemetery in Zolynia. Most have been smashed, some have paint stains and many have been shaved at one end so that they sit flat on a pedestal. There is a brief 1992 report by the United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad on the Zolynia cemetery (Number POCE000784) which includes some incomplete and incorrect information.

Mr. Antoni Giab, who lives up the road, has the key to cemetery and will give visitors access by appointment. Since 1991, maintenance on the area has been paid for by Jozef Waldman, a resident of Germany whose mother was buried in Zolynia. The surviving stones are not in their original locations, but the narrow range of burial years might indicate that originally they were in the same section of the cemetery. The other stones may have been used to lay or rebuild roads and other structures, or they may have simply been destroyed (see the Research Section for information on surviving Zolynia death records).

Locked entrance to the cemetery.

The cemetery from a distance. The Waldmann marker is to the left.

		"To the eternal memory of my mother, Sabinie Waldmann, deceased November 1939...and all buried here. Erected by Jozef Waldman, 1991."