Project number: [JOWBR, POL-02380]

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This, the second Jewish cemetery of the Jewish community of the town of Schneidemühl, had been inaugurated in 1854. After eighty-five years, the cemetery was totally destroyed by the Germans in 1939. The graves of twelve generations of the Jewish community were obliterated and the gravestones demolished, stolen and used for profane purposes. Today the town is known as Pila, situated in Poland, and only a large fenced-in expanse of grass remains. All the information about this cemetery, — including the data derived from a handwritten booklet that has survived and in possession of this author, containing the burial records of 549 names, covering the period 1854-1932, as well as additional data that was obtained from civil death records, — has been excerpted from the book “History of the Jewish Community of Schneidemühl: 1641 to the Holocaust,” by Peter Simonstein Cullman. Publ. by Avotaynu, Inc. Bergenfield, NJ : 2006. x, 390 pp. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. ISBN: 1886223270 978 1886223271. .