New Cemetery in Lublin
Inside of New Cemetery
with view of wall
The reconstructed New Cemetery in Lublin
was registered as a historical monument in 1989. Recently a new
wall has been added, surrounding the original cemetery. It is
made up of macewas made out of concrete with an iron Menorah
separating each group of five stones. There are 300 macewas in
the wall. On the inside of the wall, tombstones inscribed with
the names of those buried in the cemetery, are placed on the
concrete stones. The photograph above shows the inside of the
wall.
On the outside of the wall, the stones
look as though they have suffered from war damage or the ravages
of time; this is intended to symbolize the destruction of the
cemetery by the Nazis.
View of New Cemetery
wall from the outside
The photo below shows part of the wall
with the huge iron gates shaped like a Menorah which swing open
on wheels that run on a track on the concrete.
Wall and gate into
the courtyard in front of Chamber of Memory
The photo below shows the heavy iron
Menorah-shaped gates to the entrance of the Chamber of Memory,
which also have wheels on a track; the door into the chamber
is in the background.
Iron gates on wheels
at entrance to Chamber of Memory
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