Alternate names: Stropkov [Slov], Sztropkó [Hun], Stropkev [Yid], Stroppkau [Ger], Stropko. 49°12' N, 21°39' E, 23 miles NE of Prešov (Eperjes). 1900 Jewish population: 1,189. KehilaLink

• • Stropkov memorial book: the history of the town of Stropkov since the founding of the community until the year 1914, the outbreak of World War I(Brooklyn, NY, 1968)
  • Seyfer zikorn Stropkov (Brooklyn, 1967 or 1968)
  • Between Galicia and Hungary: The Jews of Stropkov (Bergenfield, NJ, 2002)
  • BOOK: Between Galicia and Hungary: The Jews of Stropkov. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.i. [July 2011]

CEMETERY:

• JOWBR: Stropkov New Cemetery
• also see TISINEC-STROPKO and see KRIVA OLKA.
• Cemetery at Hlinky (between the houses nr. 22 and 24), Tisinec . Key is available upon request  from Mr. Emil Hríb, street Hlinky 7, Stropkov, telephone number: +421 54 7422046. Located in the SE edge of the city center, amid a built-up area of family houses, this 140x30m cemetery was reportedly established in the middle of the 19th century.. Aproximately 551 standing and 50 toppled gravestones are visible. The older gravestones are caved from sandstone, while younger gravestones, belonging to the more wealthy community members, are marble. Men and women were buried in separate rows. Cndlestick symbols dominate the women's row, while men's gravestones display Levite ewer, blessing hands of Cohanim, Star of David and weeping willow with Hebrew, German and Hungarian Inscriptions . Only the last gravestone dated October 1989 bears inscription also in Slovak. Rabbi of the local Orthodox community, Yitzchak Zvi Amsel, ohel standis in the middle of the site. For more than six years, after general restoration, the cemetery is regularly and well maintained. photos. [Sep 2014]
• (burials from 1400-1800) Just outside Stropkov is a tiny village called Tisinec where the Jews of Stropkov and the surrounding settlements buried their dead. The cemetery is not in the town itself, but out in the fields, removed from sight but not from memory. When we asked elderly ladies walking home from church about the cemetery, they were happy to direct us there. We drove out into the fields out, past where the road turns into a two-rut tractor path, so overgrown with weeds that I feared for the rented car. When the going got rough, we walked. Nearly invisible in the wild overgrowth and undergrowth, was one small building within an ohel built to protect the grave of one of the noted Hassidic rabbis, Rav Yosef Chaim Gottlieb, who had lived in Stropkov in the 1800s. "Juden raus" was scrawled on the walls. This abandoned neglected cemetery, the final resting-place to Jews from 1400 to 1900, was peaceful in the sunlight, lovely with scattered wildflowers and sweet with wild strawberries underfoot. The Jews of Stropkov accompanied their dead on carts to the cemetery in Tisinec. They ritually cleansed the bodies in the house east of where we had received directions. After 1900, they established a cemetery on the outskirts of Stropkov. The cemetery in Tisinec fell into disuse. Hundreds of gravestones, many completely illegible, many fallen or mossed over, have no surnames. The city of Stropkov is responsible for this cemetery. Directions: From Stropkov, turn right, then left onto a dirt road that goes out into the fields. In Zemplen County at 49º14' 21º38', 4 kilometers from Stropkov, the village has less than 100 people and no Jews. Contact: Marko Vateha, City Architect, Stropkov Municipality: Mestsky urad Hlavna ulita, 38-2, Stropkov, Slovakia. Keyholder is Frantisek Prusak, Tisinec 23. The Jews of Stropkov were expelled to Tisivec about 1700 and returned about 1800. The earliest legible grave is 1676: Sara. Following communities also used the Orthodox cemetery: Havaj, Chotca, Stropkov, Mikova, Boksa, Sitnik, Brenicze and others within within 10-15 km. The flat isolated rural site, reached by crossing private property, is open with permission via a continuous masonary wall and locking gate. Hundreds of limestone and sandstone, rough or boulders, flat shaped stones, finely smoothed and inscribed or with carved relief decoration tombstones with Hebrew inscriptions are most in the original location. No known mass graves. Used for a Jewish cemetery only, agricultural land is adjacent. Groups and private visitors visit rarely. Restoration: fixing the wall and gate and rebuilding of the ohel by Jewish individual abroad. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., 43-9 Bezalel St., 84350 Beersheva, Israel (07) 6433056 completed survey on Oct. 12, 1998 following a visit in August 1997. LDS death records for Stropkov, 1851-1898 were used. Interviews were with Thomas Stern, September 1998 via the Internet and Herbert Tuchman, through extended 1997-1998 correspondence. [2004]
• US Commission No. SLCE000031:

Stropkov cemetery is open to all via a fence with an unlocked gate. 250 meters from the main road (which goes to Vraanov), the cemetery is 140x28-30 meters. 100-500 tombstones date from 1900-1942, some in original locations but many fallen. They lay from N to S with the inscriptions at the W side. Of the marble, granite, and sandstone flat shaped and finely smoothed tombstones, many are illegible, worn completely smooth. Most sandstone monuments are flaking into layers, disintegrating and falling off. Those that can be read are in Hebrew without surnames. Some show ornamental leaves and vines. One ohel (Zborover Rebbe, R. Yitzhak Hersh Amsel) is in bad repair in the W section, deep within the under- and overgrowth. Vegetation, growing unchecked, damages tombstones. An open well exists within the cemetery, probably once a beit tahara. Private visitors arrive occasionally. There is no regular caretaker. The property belongs to the Municipaility of Stropkov, 38 Hlavna Street, Stropkov. The city architect, Marko Vateha, is a willing guide and very knowledgeable about both the cemetery and the town.

Corrections to the Commission data by This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Beersheva, Israel; [date?]: Stropkov lies in NE Slovakia near the Russian and Polish borders. Until 1900, Jews buried their dead in the cemetery in Tisinec (See Tisinec). From 1900, they buried their dead in the outskirts of Stropkov. The town has since enveloped the cemetery that today stands in a residential area. Indeed, as we entered the area through a hole in the fence, next door neighbors were sitting on the ground in their adjacent yards sorting potatoes. I wondered if it felt strange for them to live so near an abandoned, overgrown Jewish cemetery, but they did not even look up. There were no last names on these tombstones; and most were illegible, half hidden by wild grasses and flowers and bushes. One grave stood out, different from the others, the impressive, fully upright, marble, clearly marked in Slovakian, " Here lies Jakub Grunfeld...." Jakub Grunfeld, the last Jew of Stropkov, who had been caretaker of the cemetery, with whom I had corresponded once now, is dead. Some kind soul had buried him among his ancestors. The circle had closed.
Cemetery grounds being cleared of undergrowth in preparation for restoration of tombstones. Source : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Assistant Director HFPJC ([November 2004]

January 2009:

Map of Town

Town Stropkov
	Address:	Phone:	00 421 54 742 23 71
	Mestský úrad	Fax:	00 421 54 742 37 61
	Hlavná 38/2	Email:	This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
	091 01 Stropkov SLOVAKIA	Web:	www.stropkov.sk

Region:	Prešovský
District:	Stropkov
Micro region:	Horný Zemplín
Inhabitants:	10851
Area:	2467 ha
First paper reference:	in year 1245
Mayor:	MUDr. Peter Obrimčák
Chief:	Ing. Metod Burák