The Jewish Cemetery of Gorlice likely dates to the 19th century and includes an ohel (rebuilt in 1960) for the great rabbis of the region. In front of the ohel there is a mass grave of approximately 160 victims of the Holocaust, exhumed after the war and transferred to the cemetery.
A small memorial of tombstones was added in the 1990s, and in 2021 the Sidur Przechodniów (a memorial for the Jews of Gorlice) was built near the cemetery gate. The Sidur Memorial is in the shape of the Star of David, and contains fragments of tombstones excavated from under the floor of the Beszt Synagogue.
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