"The first Jewish cemetery in Nowy Sacz was located on a slope opposite buttresses urban synagogues and Jewish okopiska wore name. The cemetery was founded at the end of the nineteenth century, extended in 1926 and is surrounded by a wall with the entrance from the street. Fishing.
Panels on the graves funeral - gravestones - are arranged vertically and facing toward the south-east towards Jerusalem. Are marked with a star of David and inscriptions in Hebrew. Nowadays - nejednokrotnie in Polish. By the end of the nineteenth century were visible to them only the names of the dead, after that time shall also be named. Gravestones were decorated with relief motifs are, whom the symbolic content of relevance shows the deceased in the Jewish community. Bas-relief gravestones are one of the few expressions of Jewish art. Applying the brutal Nazi occupiers liquidation measures against the Jews did the same with the tombstones cemetery tombstones with Sadecki.
They used them as kamiemieniarskiego building material, also to pave the streets. Visible on the cemetery headstones Sądecki for the most part have been arranged since 1945
Retained from the old tombs in the grave of the deceased and resident of 1875, the moment of death in Nowy Sacz Tzadik-Hayim Halberstam miracle worker, to whom I today hasydzi pilgrim Jews.
Sadecki cemetery was in the years 1940 - 1945, the place of execution, also made massive by the Nazis on the Jewish population of the city and surrounding areas, also on the Poles. The place of mass extermination is commemorated with a monument-obelisk unveiled 18 June 1959, the inscription on which the victims of Nazi barbarism and heroes of the struggle for the freedom of the Polish nation from 1939 to 1945 was. "
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