First visit Baluty

Finally we went for our first orientation really to the Baluty-district. To see at the map it's quite a huge quater. So we decided first to focus on the borders of the old ghetto. To see what it is, how it looks... how big it is. To get the taste of the old Baluty. Sniffing the atmosphere and meeting the people.

Gosia and Agnieszka did some research on the internet after "the old Baluty" and brought maps and books.

We walked along Zahodny and it turns out that we where on our way to the old Jewish cemetary which was situated outside the borders of the old ghetto. We followed our path and walked without knowing or realizing along the old walls of the cemetary...

Asking this lady for the old cemetary, she pointed out where it was, just where we where!

We missed the memorial sign.

and we found the stone... which says:

The old Jewish cemetery on Wesola street. established April 4, 1811 was in use until 1922. The German occupiers began to destroy the cemetery in 1942; the cemetery was completely destroyed by the communist authorities in the years 1949 - 1954.

The grounds hold about 12.000 graves.