At the beginning of the 19th century, in 1801, only 17 Jews lived here, which accounted for 1.6% of the total population (1,022). Around the middle of the 19th century, Jews increased to 29.

The Description

Around this time, certainly before 1853, the Jewish community of Boleszkowice established their cemetery. For this purpose, a plot of land approx. 30 m square was chosen, located to the south-west of the town, approx. 50 m from the road leading to Namyślin. A stone wall surrounded the cemetery.

It served as a burial site until World War II. Like many other Jewish necropolises in the Third Reich, it was probably vandalised during the Kristallnacht of 1938. After the war, the process of destruction continued. The cemetery area is overgrown with bushes, trees and ivy. The historical boundaries of the necropolis can still be determined from the remains of a wall of broken stones 30 to 100 cm high. To this day, fragments of tombstones have been preserved on its surface - concrete frames, monuments in the form of a broken tree, and about 10 tombstones with inscriptions in Hebrew and German. The oldest surviving gravestone dates back to 1853.

In 1997, the cemetery was cleaned up on the initiative of the municipality, Friends of Chwarszczany, Gudzisz, Reczyce, the Provincial Monument Conservator in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Dębno Forest District and Fundacja Wieczna Pamięć (English: Eternal Remembrance Foundation). At the time, a wooden information board was placed at the entrance to the site. Since 1997, the cemetery has not been tidied up, and as a result, it has again become overgrown with self-sown trees and grasses.

The plot of land on which the cemetery is located is owned by the State Forests (Dębno Forest District). In 2018, the cemetery was entered in the register of immovable monuments under the number A-1729 dated. 11/06/2018

Właściciel praw autorskich do opisu: Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN.