About Jewish cemetery in Białystok, Wschodnia street

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The Jewish Cemetery in Wschodnia street, Białystok (Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland) was created around 1890, after the closure of the old cemetery on Kalinowski Street. The Jewish cemetery is a listed heritage monument.

This is the only surviving Jewish cemetery in Białystok and one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Poland. The brick boundary wall encloses an area of 12.5 hectares, which contains around 6,000 Matzevah - the oldest of which dates to the year 1876. The matzevah are made of marble, granite, limestone, and sandstone. There are inscriptions in Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and German.

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21, Bagnówka, Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego, Białystok, Białystok, podlaskie, Polska, 15-193

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