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Czestochowa Jewish genealogy and heritage sites - Holocaust sites. Virtual tour through the Jewish Czestochowa.
Jewish district, Ghetto, Jewish cemetery of Czestochowa.

The Jews of Częstochowa have been a part of our world for centuries. They were born here, lived here, worked and celebrated. By identifying themselves with their hometown, they acted in its favour, making a considerable contribution to the development of economy, education and culture. They participated in historical events important for the city and frequently manifested their attachment to their roots, in accordance with local patriotism. For years, their faithfulness to religion and traditions did not affect their coexistence with their neighbours of other denominations in in the ecumenical community of Częstochowa, one of the world’s most famous centres of Marian devotion.

Today there are only traces left of their former activity in the city. They are a reminder of the days when the Jewish commmunity was most active, but also of the most painful historical events of the 20th century. Apart from the museum collections, the historical tenements, the commemorations of the activity of Jewish institutions and the Jewish citizens who contributed to the local community and beyond, there are Jewish graves and memorial plaques dedicated to the victims of genocide. All these testimonies documenting the fate of the Jews of Częstochowa are remarkable sources of knowledge about the history of the Jews and the history of the city. It is worth to go on a journey in the footsteps of the Jews of Częstochowa, to get to know about them and their past.

MUSEUM OF CZĘSTOCHOWA – ULICA KATEDRALNA 8 Muzeum Częstochowskie – ul. Katedralna 8

The permanent exhibition “The Jews of Częstochowa” shows the bygone, multicultural Częstochowa through the photographs, documents and posters. The photographs collected at the exhibition were largely sent by families of former Częstochowa citizens of Jewish origin. Among the exhibits are also copies of original legal acts from the 19th century, defining the legal rules under which the Jewish community in the city was functioning during the Partitions, as well as posters from the interwar period to the Nazi occupation, and the three-dimensional model of the now nonexistent New Synagogue, destroyed by Germans during the war. It was founded by the Jewish community in the early 19th century.

This is the fourth largest necropolis of its kind in Poland, with almost 5,000 matzevot and tombs. The oldest surviving gravestone dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. There are still traces of original polychromies on some of the gravestones. The local ohel of the Pinkus Mendel Justman, who died in 1920, is visited every year by the Hasidim from all over the world. During the World War II, the area of the cemetery was the place of execution of Częstochowa Jews – their remains were buried in collective graves. During this time the necropolis was severely damaged. Many matzevot and headstones were torn down and used as raw materials for construction work at the behest of the occupying authorities. After the war, the Jewish District Committee rebuilt the demolished wall, gravestones for people murdered by Germans were also funded. In 1986, the cemetery was entered into the register of monuments.

MONUMENT TO THE MEMORY OF THE JEWS OF CZĘSTOCHOWA – ULICA STRAŻACKA 19

The monument commemorates the 40,000 Częstochowa Jews murdered in the Treblinka death camp. It is located by the Warta freight train station, where Germans started deporting the Jews from the ghetto on September 22, 1942. In 2006, during the congress of The World Society of Częstochowa Jews and Their Descendants, a decision was made to commemorate these historic facts with a monument.

It was unveiled on October 20, 2009. The originator and founder of the monument was Zygmunt Rolat, chairman of The World Society of Częstochowa Jews and Their Descendants. Next to the monument, designed by sculptor Samuel Willenberg, is a glass panel containing the order to export 6 transports with Częstochowa Jews to the Treblinka death camp.