Bielsk Podlaski

The Bielsk Podlaski Virtual Jewish Cemetery



The Bielsk Podlaski Virtual Jewish Cemetery includes photos and translations of gravestones, videos of the cemetery, reports on cemetery conditions, and other material related to the Jewish cemetery in Bielsk Podlaski, Poland. The links in the list will take you to photos of the gravestones. Photos sourced externally will open a new tab or window in your browser. Below the list there are links to reports, videos, and other information related to the cemetery.

If you would like to search for graves of people from Bielsk, visit the JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry.

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Matzevot from the Bielsk Podlaski Jewish Cemetery

 

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• Take a video tour (3 minutes 39 seconds) of the Jewish Cemetery in Bielsk Podlaski with English narration.
• View another video (6 minutes 19 seconds) of the Jewish Cemetery in Bielsk Podlaski.
• The European Jewish Cemeteries Initiative report on the Bielsk cemetery includes information on the site condition and gravestones, and a historical overview along with many photos.
• The International Cemetery Project describes the status of the Jewish cemetery in Bielsk Podlaski.
• The Foundation for Documentation of Jewish Cemeteries in Poland has photos of six gravestones from the Bielsk cemetery.
• The Bagnowka site has over 30 photographs from the cemetery.
• The Jewish Cemeteries in Poland site has 16 photos. An earlier version of this same page, with very different text that appears to be the Testimony of Sonia Gleicher about the Bielsk ghetto, can be read here. Let your browser translate these pages to English.
• The creator of the Jewish Cemeteries in Poland website, Krzysztof Bielawski, was interviewed by the Times of Israel in an article titled "Annihilation of Poland’s Jewish cemeteries documented in provocative book." His book is titled Zagłada cmentarzy żydowskich, which translates to “Extermination of Jewish cemeteries”
• To read excerpts from Zagłada cmentarzy żydowskich in English click here.
• Another interview with Krzysztof Bielawski, titled "Jewish cemeteries in Poland remain in the long shadow of the Holocaust." Let your browser translate the article.
  
• These two personal flickr sites have 4 photos and 213 photos of the cemetery and other sights in Bielsk Podlaski.
• YadVashem has two photos of the grounds of the cemetery, here and here.
  

 

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