Leftovers of the Jewish Community
The first picture shows the then-abandoned and decaying burial hall and administrative offices that serviced the “modern” Jewish cemetery of Gleiwitz, one of the few in Poland that was not razed by the Nazis. This handsome Gothic Revival building, dating to 1902, has since been restored as The Upper Silesian Jews House of Remembrance, a new branch of Museum in Gliwice, see https://gliwice.eu/en/business-card/zabytki-ciekawe-miejsca-muzea/upper-silesian-jews-house-remembrance/.
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The second picture shows the inside of the burial hall prior to its restoration.
The third and fourth pictures show two of the tombstones in the “modern” cemetery, and they belong to two Kochmanns: Isidor, who died in 1915 and is listed in the 1914 edition of the Gleiwitz telephone book, and a Regina Kochmann – but neither of them appears in our family tree.
The fifth and sixth pictures are of the “old” Jewish cemetery, which is in a locked-up plot right in the middle of the city. As can be seen, only some walls are visible from the building that stood at its entrance, and the cemetery is overgrown with grass and plants. Most of the tombstones are toppled and they are unreadable, but surely many a 19th century Kochmann is buried there.
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The second picture shows the inside of the burial hall prior to its restoration.
The third and fourth pictures show two of the tombstones in the “modern” cemetery, and they belong to two Kochmanns: Isidor, who died in 1915 and is listed in the 1914 edition of the Gleiwitz telephone book, and a Regina Kochmann – but neither of them appears in our family tree.
The fifth and sixth pictures are of the “old” Jewish cemetery, which is in a locked-up plot right in the middle of the city. As can be seen, only some walls are visible from the building that stood at its entrance, and the cemetery is overgrown with grass and plants. Most of the tombstones are toppled and they are unreadable, but surely many a 19th century Kochmann is buried there.
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