Dr Jonathan Webber professor Jagiellonian University Krakow conducts ceremony of re-consecration of Brzostek's Jewish cemetery

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Dr Jonathan Webber professor Jagiellonian University Krakow conducts ceremony of re-consecration of Brzostek's Jewish cemetery Brzostek in south-eastern Poland (historic province of Lesser Poland). Poles and Jews restore the Jewish cemetery of Brzostek The Jewish cemetery in Brzostek, called “kierkut” by the local Christian community, was probably established in the mid-19th century Before World War Two the cemetery was surrounded by a wooden fence, with the entrance gate 446 people were buried in the cemetery in the years World War Two the Nazis executed Jews in the cemetery. Victims were buried in mass graves. Recently initiated by Dr Jonathan Webber Oxford university, the cemetery was surrounded with a metal fence. About seventy gravestones found all around Brzostek were placed on concrete pedestals. A monument was also funded to commemorate Brzostek's Jewsh community

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Location: Brzostek in south-eastern Poland
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