Jewish Cemetery, Kielce

There are about 330 tombstones saved and preserved inside the necropolis, of which about 150 are arranged in the form of a lapidary monument.

[1] The cemetery was founded in 1868 based on design by architect Franciszek Ksawery Kowalski.

[2] Notably, on 23 May 1943, the German paramilitary police murdered 45 Jewish children there, aged 15 months to 15 years.

In subsequent years, the bodies of victims of massacres committed by Nazi Germans inside the Kielce Ghetto during the Holocaust in occupied Poland were exhumed from the banks of the Silnica River and transferred to the cemetery.

Pamiątki i zabytki kultury żydowskiej w Polsce [Artefacts of Jewish History in Poland].