Alternate names: Nadarzyn [Pol], Nadazhin [Yid, Rus], Nadzhin, Nadzin. Russian: Надажин. נדז'ין [Yid]. 52°06' N, 20°48' E, 13 miles SW of Warszawa, 5 miles S of Pruszków. Jewish population: 516 (in 1862), 430 (in 1921). Gmina Nadarzyn is a rural administrative district in Pruszków powiat, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland with its seat is the village of Nadarzyn, 9 kilometres (6 mi) S of Pruszków. The gmina 2006 its total population was 10,362. Gmina Nadarzyn contains the villages and settlements of Bieliny, Kajetany, Kostowiec, Krakowiany, Młochów, Nadarzyn, Parole, Rozalin, Rusiec, Stara Wieś, Strzeniówka, Szamoty, Urzut, Walendów, Wola Krakowiańska, Wolica and Żabieniec. Normal 0 Jews settled in Nadarzynie before 1507 when the Jewish community is documented in connection with taxes for the coronation of Sigismund I the Old. Jewish population was a significant percentage of the village. Jewish population: 1800-174; 1808-222, 1862 "65 houses (5 brick), 939 residents (516 Jews)" [Slownik]; 1897-770. The early 20th century saw mass immigration to America. In 1921, 431 Jew remained. The synagogue, built at the junction of ul. Mszczonowskiej and ul. Mszczonowska and ul. Błońskie,j still stands, but with another use. [June 2009]
CEMETERY: Located in the district in the birch forest north of ul. Brzozowej, the street leads from the junction of the road to Katowice to the International Center for Hearing and Speech. Pass the clinic and take the road near the concrete wall into the forest around 200-300 meters. Turn right to the cemetery. The City of Nadarzyn owns the property and has a map is indicated as a parcel of land survey 35 in their office. In addition to Jews from Nadarzyna, those from the nearby villages of Piaseczno and Pruszkowa also used it. In Book of Remembrance and Pruszkowa Nadarzyna the cemetery is described as an "in the local cemetery where you can see the tombs of Warsaw Jews who were brought here, where there was no Jewish cemetery. [in Warsaw] (....) There brought the dead in a horse cart." Nadarzyna residents remember that the cemetery has old and new parts, between which the caretaker lived. The cemetery was clearly visible from the road leading to Warsaw as late as WWII. Devastated by the Nazis, the process of destruction continued after liberation. Most of the matzevot were used for construction. In the 1960s or 1970s, the cemetery area and remaining gravestones were covered with sand. The boundaries of the cemetery are clear, but the gravestones are broken, some of them fragments with inscriptions in Hebrew and traces of polychrome decoration. Black dye was used to fill the background of inscription panels. On the brick wall are traces of black and yellow paint. One tomb has well-preserved black background with a red border. Very rarely, matzevot have drawn symbolic reliefs. Gravestone locations suggest faced west. In the SE corner of the cemetery are vertical concrete or sandstone gravestones. Some matzevot have been found on one property in Nadarzyn intended for use in a proposed restaurant within the cemetery. The area of the cemetery may well have extended north beyond the area previously on the city map. Among the vegetation is a large block of sandstone, which probably was part of a tomb structure, possibly an ohel. This area is in the depression with three sides quite an apparent outline. At this point, the cemetery possibly on a small hill may have been reduced as a result of taking gravel for building Katowice road. The Mszczonow Jewish cemetery has the ohel of the President of the rabbinical court of Nadarzyn. In local church on the altar is candlestick. Some claim that this is from the destroyed synagogue, but according to information given by a former priest, Fr. Bronisława Płaszczyńskiego, the candlestick was purchased after WWII. Photos. [June 2009]