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The Last
Jewish Gravestones in Porozow
Not much is left of Porozow's
Jewish Cemetery. It sits where it
always has, but most of the
headstones have disappeared, many
having been used after World War II
- when there were no longer any Jews
left to mourn their dead - to
construct the road to Wolkowysk. A
few remain, most of them illegible.
Click on the thumbnail for a
larger image.
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Entrance to the Cemetery
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Stone 1
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Stone 1 - Larger View
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Stone 2
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Stone 3
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Stone 4
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Stone 5
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Stone 6
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Stone 7
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Stone 8
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Stone 8 - Larger View
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Stone 9
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All of these photographs except the
last one were taken by Stanislaw Grygorowicz
in 2008; the photo of stone 9 is
earlier, from 1993. Most of the
stones are too worn to read, but it
is clear that stone 4 was erected in
memory of a man named Isaac Yehuda,
and that stone 9
belonged to Reb Zvi Yimber Shraga, who
"died in his youth on
13 Cheshvan in the year
Taf-Resh-Mem-Zayin, may he
rest in peace." That translates to November 11,
1886. [Translation
courtesy of
Shlomit Steinberg and Nati
Taboriski]. |
