Dark sights in Kraków
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Remuh Cemetery
Founded in the mid-16th century, it was closed for burials in the late 18th century, when a new and larger graveyard was established. During WWII Nazis vandalised and razed the tombstones, but during postwar conservation work some 700 gravestones, many of them outstanding Renaissance examples and dating back four centuries, were uncovered. It seems that the Jewish faithful themselves had buried the stones to avoid their desecration by foreign armies, which repeatedly invaded Kraków in the 18th century. The tombstones have been meticulously restored, making the place one of the best-preserved Renaissance Jewish cemeteries anywhere in Europe.
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New Jewish Cemetery
Although it’s the ‘new’ Jewish cemetery, it was established as early as 1800. There are some 9000 surviving tombstones, some of which have eerie and elaborate carvings.
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