Alternate names: Wolbrom [Pol], Wohlborn [Ger], Volbrom [Yid-Вольбром, Rus-Вольбром]. 50°22' N, 19°46' E, 50 miles SW of Kielce, 21 miles NNW of Kraków, 11 miles NE of Olkusz. Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego (1880-1902), XIII, pp. 825-826: "Wolbrom". 1900 Jewish population: 2,901. Yizkor: Wolbrom irenu, (Tel Aviv, 1962). This town in Olkusz powiat, Lesser Poland Voivodeship had 9,568 inhabitants in 2005. Jewish history. History of Wolbrom. The Story of Jewish Wolbrom. [July 2009]
Normal 0 CEMETERY: Located at ul. Skalskiej in the vicinity of an emergency building, the WWII devastation by the Nazis left only isolated fragments of gravestones. In the 1980s, the Nissenbaum Family Foundation, Council for the Protection of Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom, and local authorities cleaned and fenced the site. On November 24, 1988, they unveiled a monument commemorating 4,500 Wolbrom Holocaust victims: pillars supporting a beam with a Mogen David inscribed in Polish and Hebrew. MASS GRAVE: In the nearby forest, Jews were murdered here by the Nazis during the liquidation of the Wolbrom ghetto. Video. [July 2009]
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Located in Katowickie. The US Commission is not finished rechecking this file. [2000]
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:
- BOOK: 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.