The turn of the 1960s and 1970s, however, was a period of organized activity by the local authorities aimed at officially "cleaning up" the cemetery, and actually destroying it completely.
In the early 1970s, a company carried out the dismantling of particularly valuable tombstones, family tombs made of black Swedish marble and metal wrought-iron fences.
[1] The cemetery gradually became overgrown with bushes, and to make matters worse, it became a meeting place for the local social fringe.
In addition to the destruction and theft of massebot, many graves were dug up in search of valuable items allegedly carried by the dead.
At his behest, the cemetery was inspected by Henryk Grecki (from Pracownia Zieleni Zabytkowej in Szczecin) and Ryszard Patorski (museum in Międzyrzecz), taking photos of 162 massebot.
Translation of the inscriptions on the tombstones was handled by Paweł Woronczak, and documentation of this inventory was sent, among others, to the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw.
In addition to hired workers and students from local high schools, young Germans from the Mauritius Gymnasium in Büren near Paderborn also took part in the project.
[3] The opening of the restored necropolis, attended by representatives of the Jewish religious community from Szczecin, was combined with a scientific conference and an exhibition of photographs depicting the cemetery.
Most of the inscriptions made by the vandals were successfully removed, but the municipality's coffers still lack the money for a complete renovation of the cemetery.
Despite this, young people from the local high school regularly clean it up, clearing the necropolis of trash and fallen leaves.
The largest cemetery is located in Słubice (2.35 hectares), but it is much poorer if one takes into account the number of preserved massebot.
[1] In 2007 there were 247 tombstones (massebot) in the cemetery, and there are data that immediately after World War II there were also remains of a funeral house, a well, a fence and a gate.
Most of the tombstones, measuring from a few dozen centimeters to as much as 1.5 meters high, are made of richly decorated gray or pink sandstone.
Until recently, one could also admire massebot enriched with tasteful plaques made of black glass, but due to their considerable value, they have become an object of theft.
One of the tombstones resembles a cylinder or column in shape, and is styled like a tree trunk – it has carved bark and a short branch.
The oldest grave stones are located at the very top of the hill, in its western part, according to the order of burials that used to take place there.
In the northeastern and eastern parts of the cemetery one can find the foundations of the tombs of the wealthier dead, perhaps remnants of the so–called ohelim.
The community living in the town was strongly influenced by Jewish Germans and Protestantism, which is partly reflected in the sacred art present in the cemetery.
On the sides of each relief can be found the Hebrew letters Pe and Nun (נ and פ), which are an abbreviation of the tombstone maxim Here lies.
His grave is located in the northern part of the cemetery, distinguished by the height of the tombstone, as well as the motif of a thick book carved on it, a symbol of the buried man's wisdom.