Zanemanski Jewish cemetery Photo: Zanemanski Jewish cemetery

Zanemanski Jewish cemetery – the only one of the three Jewish cemeteries in Grodno, preserved to our days. How many years actually this cemetery, specialists find it difficult to answer. The first Jews appeared in Grodno probably in the XII century. On Salamanca Jewish cemetery found tombstones Dating back to the eighteenth century, however, many of the plates from the ancient underground cemeteries.

Zanemanski cemetery was located outside the city. Basically, the Jews were buried on the Old and New Jewish cemeteries in Grodno. New Jewish cemetery, which, despite the name, it was already several hundred years old, was plowed in the mid-1950s. Monuments and tombstones went to the strengthening of the pedestal of the monument to Lenin, and the plowed field was later built the stadium "Red Flag" (the modern name of the stadium – "Neman"). Partial reburial of the remains was made only during the reconstruction of the stadium in 2003.

The old Jewish cemetery was not far from the Lutheran Church in Great Trinity street. In its place is now a Parking lot. Reburial nobody did, because the descendants of those buried in the cemetery were destroyed by the Nazis during the Holocaust. All the authorities did was raked up old bones, fragments of monuments and the earth and moved it all to the territory senomanskogo Jewish cemetery. Now these ancient tombs, turned into a mountain of earth and broken stone, are buried near the graves on Salamanca Jewish cemetery.

On Salamanca Jewish cemetery is the tomb of Alexander Ziskind – author of "Yesod of valores a-avoid", who died in 1794.

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