Żydowskie domy modlitwy oraz cmentarze na Warmii i Mazurach – stan obecny (na tle dziejów Żydów w Prusach Wschodnich i Zachodnich)
Jewish places of worship and cemeteries in Warmia-Masuria – current situation (against the background of Jewish activities in East and West Prussia)

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a description of Jewish places of worship and cemeteries within the boundaries of the current administrative region of Warmia-Masuria. The author focuses not only on cataloguing 49 districts (gmina), of which the majority had their own burial sites and houses of worship or synagogues, but also on the description of the activities of individual districts and on a presentation of the general history of the Jewish presence in old Prussia from the Middle Ages to 1945. The main aim of the article is to describe the current state of repair of cemeteries, places of worship and synagogues, their post-war fates in the reality of Communist Poland and during the period post 1989. The article also describes their role in the consciousness of the residents of Warmia-Masuria.

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