Alternate names: Zawiercie [Pol], Zavirtcha, זאוויערטשע [Yid], Zavyertze, Заверце [Rus], זאוירציה [Hebr], Warthenau [Ger, 1941-45], Zavertse, Zavyerche. 50°30' N, 19°26' E, 36 miles NW of Kraków, 25 miles SE of Częstochowa, 17 miles NE of Będzin. Jewish population: 1,134 (in 1887), 6,095 (in 1921). Yizkors: Pinkas ha-kehilot; entsiklopediya shel ha-yishuvim le-min hivasdam ve-ad le-aher shoat milhemet ha-olam ha-sheniya: Poland vol. 7: Kielce and Lublin (Jerusalem, 1999); Sefer zikaron; kedoshei Zawiercie ve-ha-seviva (Tel Aviv, 1948); and Pinkas Zaglembye (Melbourne, 1972). JOWBR burial list: Jewish Cemetery. This city in the Silesian Voivodeship of southern Poland with 55,800 inhabitants in 2005 in the Kraków-Częstochowa highland near the source of the Warta River. [July 2009]
ZAWIERCIE I: US Commission No. POCE00056: In Katowickie. The US Commission is not finished rechecking this file. [2000]
ZAWIERCIE-KROMOKLOW I: US Commission No. POCE000548 and (II) POCE000566: In Katowickie.The US Commission is not finished rechecking these files. [2000]
There is an old Jewish cemetery. You can see a few Jewish buildings left in the town. No further information given. Source: "web". [Sic]
The following is a list of Jewish cemeteries in Zaglembie. I have personally visted most of them: Bedzin - ul. Podzamcze, Bedzin - ul. Zawale (now a park), Bedzin - ul. Sielecka (bus terminal), Czeladz - ul. Czealdzka 64 (also used by Bedzin community), Sosnowiec - ul. Gospodarcza 1, Sosnowiec (Modzejow) - ul. Niwka Pastewna, Sosnowiec (Milowice) - ul. Stalowa, Dabrowa Gornicza - ul. Wolka 5, Dabrowa gornicza - ul. Mydlice, Wolbrom - ul. Skalska, Zawiercie - ul. Daszynskiego, Kromolow - ul. Piaskowa 29, Olkusz - ul. Kopalniana, Olkusz - ul. Olowiana, Boleslaw - Krzykawka 139 (used by Slawkow community), I have many photos of these cemeteries. You should also consult the following:
- Daab, Alezandra, Macewy Bedzinskie [Bedzin Jewish Tombstones]. Katowice: Urzad Miejski w Bedzinie, 1993.
- BOOK: Derus, Malgorzata and Dariusz Walerjanski, "Cmentarze zydowskie w wojewosdstwie katowickim [Jewish Cemeteries in the Province of Katowice]," in Cmentarze zydowskie . Wroclaw: Towarzystwo Przyjacol Polonistyki Wroclawskiej, 1995, pp. 155-165.
- BOOK: Rozmus, Dariusz, Cmentarze Zydowskie Ziemi Olkusziej [The Jewish Cemeteries in the Olkusz Region]. Krakow: Oficyna Cracovia, 1999.
- BOOK: Rozmus, Dariusz, "Nowe Dane Dotyczace Cmentarzy Zydowskich w Dawnym Powiecie Olkuskim w Granicach Administracyjnch do 1975 r [New Data on Jewish Cemeteries in the Former County of Olkusz Within the Administrative Boundaries Up to 1975]," in Ochrona Zabytkow 1999 Nr. 1, pp. 68-72.
- BOOK: Rozmus, Dariusz, "Slady Polichromii na Nagrobkach z Obszaru Dawnego Powiatu Olkuskiego [Treces of Polychromy on Jewish Gravestones in the Former County of Olkusz]," in Ochrona Zabytkow 2000 Nr. 1, pp. 85-92.
- BOOK: Walerjanski, Dariusz, "Cmentarze Zydowskie w Wojewodztwie Katowickim - Historia, Stan Zachowania, Problemy Ochrony [Jewish Cemeteries in the Katowice Voivodship - History, State Preservatio, Protection Problems]," in Ochrona Zabytkow 1998, no. 3, pp. 246-257.
A book listing every tombtone in the Zawiercie cemetery will be published shortly. Also, I am involved in a project to publish a book on the old Jewish cemetery in Bedzin which dates back to 1808. Anyone interested in this book, please contact me. Jeffrey Cymbler This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [November 2000 on JewishGen Digest]
[UPDATE] Photos by Charles Burns [April 2016]