Photos of the Mielec Holocaust Memorial

Anna Kwiatkowska is a teacher in Mielec. While searching for material on Jewish Mielec Anna found our webpage and contacted us offering to take photos and report on the Mielec Jewish Cemeteries.

The Mielec Holocaust Memorial is located on the crossroads Świerkowa Street and Wspólna Street in a district of private housing called Borek, about 1, 5 km from Traugutta Street. There is a fence separating it from the main residential area.

Although this site never had a many of the local Mielec inhabitants refer to this place as the “Third Cemetery”. There is no evidence that a Jewish cemetery ever existed at that location and the confusion might arise from the fact that a tombstone was placed near the Memorial and two other memorials in the “shape” of Matzevot. The old Matzeva (tombstone) is located near the Memorial and we assume it was moved from one of the Mielec cemeteries or recovered from the Wisłoka River.

The Holocaust Memorial marks the place of the mass grave of Mielec Jews killed on March 9, 1942, during the deportation of Mielec Jews.

Early on the morning of March 9, 1942, the transportation of Mielec’s Jews commenced. That morning, all the remaining Jews were marched at gun point out to the aircraft hangers at Cyranka. The elderly, sick and certain prominent people in the community, including the rabbi, were shot. For the next three days, while Mielec’s Jews were deported by train, those remaining at Cyranka were marched around the compound. Any that appeared weak, sick or injured were shot. Those killed during the transportation were buried in a mass grave near the aircraft factory. [from Mielec Through The Holocaust by Howard Recht].

There is an inscription on the Holocaust memorial both in Hebrew and Polis. It reads:

IN MEMORY OF MY BELOVED FAMILY
    MY FATHER CHANINE
    MY MOTHER SARA
    MY BROTHER LAZAR     STROCH
    MY SISTER SOSIA

ALWAYS REMEMBERED
DAUGHTER RACHELA

The Holocaust Memorial placed at end of a small street. You can see it's red brick fencing that surrounds the place.	View of the enclosure with the Holocaust Memorial, Old Matzeva and Private family memorials
This photo shows evidence that the Holocaust Memorial site is being maintained. Someone cut the grass....	Gate to the Holocaust Memorial site

The Mielec Holocaust Memorial marks the place of the mass killing and grave that occurred in Mielec on March 9, 1942, during the deportation of Mielec Jews.
Close up of the Holocaust Memorial with the inscription: Memorial to The One Thousand Jews, Victims of Nazi Barbarity in the Years 1929 - 1945	Old Matzeva placed in the Holocaust memorial enclosure. This tombstone was obviously moved from another cemetery or recovered from the Wisloka River. The inscription is not readable. Magen David barely visible
Memorial to the STROCH Family	Memorial to hundreds of Jewish men and woman of Mielec killed by the Nazis. Erected by the BLASBALG - RUBIN