Przemysl Cemetery
Poland Galleries
This is a very large cemetery, on the main Slowackiego street as you leave Przemysl. The cemetery
was locked but I was able to find out and then obtain the key from a house across the street from
the cemetery. The cemetery has distinct sections, nearest the entrance seems to be stones from the 1930's.
Further to the left from the entrance there is a section of post-war memorials to lost families.
Extensive renovation of the graves in these sections seems to have taken place. Many stones, often
with their inscriptions effaced by erosion are now mounted on new concrete bases. A section of
very old graves lies directly in front of the main gate but further in the cemetery and another
much larger section of old graves is at the back left of the cemetery (relative to the main gate)
on the high ground.
At the very back of the cemetery in front of the main gate, is a section of graves and a memorial
to Jews that were murdered by Nazis in September 1939. 102 names are recorded on the memorial. My
father's brother, Mendel Salik, was one of a group of about 25 Jews from Sanok that were murdered
in the very first days of the German occupation. 102 names are recorded on the memorial (list after
gallery). However, these seem to correspond only to the identified victims of a number of
different massacres in the region in which an estimated 600 Jews were murdered. See the following links:
http://www.shtetlinks.jewishgen.org/Przemysl/murdered.shtml
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/przemysl%20ghetto.html
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The memorial plaque to the Nazi massacres of September 1939 reads:
ON SEPTEMBER 17, 18 AND 19 IN THE YEAR 1939, BARBARIAN NAZIS MURDERED
102 JEWS WHO ARE RESTING HERE. MAY THEY BE AT PEACE AND THEIR NAMES FOREVER
HONORED.
| Jakub H. Alweiss | Chaim Gleicher | Chaim M. Safrin
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| Pinkas Alweiss | Hersz Glejzer | Seide Safrim
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| Szymon Anker | Rudolf Gluck | Mendel Salik
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| Jozef Arm | *** Goldstein | Joel Salver
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| Nachum Bakenroth | Mendel Gross | Herman Salzberg
|
| Izrael Bakon | *** Grossman | Juliusz Salzberg
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| Majer Bar | Moses Gutter | Jakub Schachter
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| Hersz Besen | Hirsch Hauben | Anszel Schandler
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| Oswald Bethauer | *** Herbst | Nate Scharf
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| Jakub Blatt | Moses Hirsch | Jozef Schildhorn
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| Jakub Breiter | Mordche Igel | Zalman Schleifer
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| Jozef Briffel | Aron S. Kessel | Jozef Schneider
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| Naftali Broch | Hersz Kostenbaum | Izaak Schnell
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| Szmerl Czopp | Leiba Kronenfeld | Aron Silber
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| Markus Daar | Abracham I. Krug | Mojzesz Silber
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| Samuel Dienstag | Eliasz H. Kunke | Oskar Silber
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| Mendel Dukler | Leizer Kupfer | Juda Slam
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| Jozef Eichel | Samuel M. Kupfer | Moses Sojfer
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| Abracham Einsidler | Herman L. Lessig | Jozef Spiegler
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| Dawid L. Etner | Izaak H. Muhlbach | Izaak Steiner
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| Baruch Erbman | Simche Nathansohn | Sina Steiner
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| Abracham Ertag | Techiel Nelken | Izaak M. Traum
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| Naftali Fenster | Mendel Nussbaum | Chaim A. Vogler
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| Mendel Feuer | Samuel Pfeffer | Sina Wasser
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| Izydor Flaumenhaft | Izaak Piepes | Izaak Weiss
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| Izaak Flugzu | Israel L. Probstein | Rubin Weiss
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| Pinkas Frank | Beniamin Rappaport | Mojzesz Weitzenbluth
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| Mojzesz Freidman | Abracham Rechter | Dawid Werter
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| Mojzesc B. Friesner | Samuel Reich | Rabin Wilk
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| Edward Freudenheim | Samuel Ring | Asher S. Wolker
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| Leizer Fuhrer | Mojzesz Rohrberger | Israel Wugman
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| Wilhelm Garber | Leon Rosen | Peisech Zins
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| Saul Garten | Eisig Rubinfeld | Moses Zuckerberg
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| Izrael Gitter | Jozef Rubinfeld | Chaskel Zwingermann
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ERECTED IN THE YEAR 2000 BY FREDERICK SALZBERG IN MEMORY OF HIS FATHER
HERMAN SALZBERG AND BROTHER JULIUSZ SALZBERG AND ALL JEWISH MARTYRS
MAY THEIR MEMORIES LIVE IN OUR HEARTS
Ammerman Family Foundation
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
NB This list seems to have been transcribed with somewhat different spelling from those
on the original plaques: for example "Majer Beer", "Jozef Arem".
Also there are original plaques which are not listed on the new memorial plaque:
for example "Samuel M. Lowenta" died
7.9.39, "Leib Kastner", died 7.9.39, perhaps because they relate to massacres at a
different date.
Mark D. Salik
June 2005