Warka today...
Franciszkanska Street showing shops on right side once owned by Jews. | |
Entrance to the town hall | |
Entrance to the Urząd Stanu Cywilnego (Civil Registration Office) | |
Warka manufactures cheap beer and wine. The "Warka" sign over the restaurant is for the beer. | |
Graffitti covers the symbolic mausoleum commemorating Rabbbi Yitzhak Kalish of Warka, a well-known Hassidic rabbi. The rabbi, who died in 1848, is buried somewhere at the cemetery. The cemetery is on the banks of the Pilica river. | |
Not a single tombstone remains at the site of the Jewish cemetery; all were destroyed during the Holcoaust. | |
Gary Mokotoff in the church conservatory in Warka examining civil registration (birth, marriage and death) records from the 1820s. |