Zabokreky nad Nitrou {Nyitra-Zsambokret}, Slovakia - Jewish cemetery
With my most grateful thanks to Jack & Maureen Jellins and Frank Feiner who were on this expedition to Zabokreky,
Our grateful thanks to Tomer Brunner who brought the few remaining tombstones to life with his translations.
We now have the following family names: BIENENSTOCK LANG PREZICH ? POLLAK TABOR ULLMANN WAMBERGER WEISZ - so from tiny beginnings we are bringing this devastated cemetery back to life.
The tombsteons are in alphabetical order - starting with the unreadable ones.
Finding this abandoned cemetery and photographing it, had an air of complete unreality. Sadly, we found very few
tombstones that we could photograph and identify but there were a few big surprises.
Take a look.
ZABOKREKY: US Commission No. SLCE000242
Zabokreky is located NE of Topolcany. The isolated rural/agricultural flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all via a broken masonry wall without gate. The present size of the cemetery is 70x70 meters. 20-100 19th-20th century marble, granite, and sandstone flat shaped tombstones and finely smoothed and inscribed stones are in original locations. Inscriptions are Hebrew, German, and Hungarian. Within the cemetery is a pre-burial house. The property is Jewish cemetery and agriculture. Properties adjacent are agricultural. The pre- and post-1939 boundaries are the same. Occasionally, private visitors stop. Security is a serious threat; vegetation and vandalism are very serious threats.
This Flickr site is geotagged thanks to Frank Feiner.
Our grateful thanks to Tomer Brunner who brought the few remaining tombstones to life with his translations.
We now have the following family names: BIENENSTOCK LANG PREZICH ? POLLAK TABOR ULLMANN WAMBERGER WEISZ - so from tiny beginnings we are bringing this devastated cemetery back to life.
The tombsteons are in alphabetical order - starting with the unreadable ones.
Finding this abandoned cemetery and photographing it, had an air of complete unreality. Sadly, we found very few
tombstones that we could photograph and identify but there were a few big surprises.
Take a look.
ZABOKREKY: US Commission No. SLCE000242
Zabokreky is located NE of Topolcany. The isolated rural/agricultural flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all via a broken masonry wall without gate. The present size of the cemetery is 70x70 meters. 20-100 19th-20th century marble, granite, and sandstone flat shaped tombstones and finely smoothed and inscribed stones are in original locations. Inscriptions are Hebrew, German, and Hungarian. Within the cemetery is a pre-burial house. The property is Jewish cemetery and agriculture. Properties adjacent are agricultural. The pre- and post-1939 boundaries are the same. Occasionally, private visitors stop. Security is a serious threat; vegetation and vandalism are very serious threats.
This Flickr site is geotagged thanks to Frank Feiner.
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