Cmentarz żydowski w Koźminie Wielkopolskim
Jewish Cemetery in Koźmin Wielkopolski

Summary/Abstract: The article seeks an answer to the question about the possible impact of matzevah inscriptions on contemporary historical knowledge, using the Jewish cemetery in Koźmin Wielkopolski as an example. It contains an outline of the history of the local Jewish community and of the cemetery, a description of the current condition of the burial ground along with translations of inscriptions on selected tombstones complete with a critical analysis. This critical analysis is a product of the comparison of data present on the tombstones and information coming from the register of persons interred at the Koźmin cemetery. An important section of the article deals with the collective exhumation of the remains and their transfer from the old cemetery to a new one. To this end, a matzevah describing that occasion, not previously translated, was used as a source material. While the very existence of the mass grave and the exhumation were recorded earlier, the information coming from the said matzevah shed new light on that event.

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