Cmentarz żydowski w Białej

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Jewish cemetery in Biała - the Jewish cemetery was built around 1621-1622, located in Biała, in the Opolskie Voivodeship. It is located on the western slope of the hill called Mound (German: Schwedenschanze), at ul. Park. Until 1914, the cemetery belonged to the commune in Biała, in the years 1914-1943 it was occupied by the kehilla in Prudnik, and from February 23, 1943 - the Association of Jews in Germany. The cemetery covers an area of 0.546 ha and has an irregular system of tombstones. The last funeral took place in 1938. Approximately 921 tombstones (in whole and in pieces) survived, pillars constituting a fragment of the fence, foundations of the pre-burial house, foundations of the gravedigger's house (established in 1826) and cemetery gate from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 2002, as part of the "Antyschematy" program, Polish, Ukrainian and German youth organized the area of the necropolis. [source: Wikipedia, 1391898]