War Cemetery No. 387 - Kraków
Kraków Cemeteries
A plot of an Austrian First World War cemetery, set within the New Jewish Cemetery (Grzegórzki district). It holds 148 Austro-Hungarian and three Russian soldiers of the Jewish faith. Twenty-six gravestones (matzevot) survive, most in poor condition. The monument of 1937 was destroyed by the Germans during the Second World War and rebuilt in 2022. The plot was restored in 2021. Please enter with reverence, as this is a religious cemetery.
History
War Cemetery No. 387 is a section of the New Jewish Cemetery at 55 Miodowa Street. The Jewish community commissioned a plan from Hans Mayr, but the cemetery was never built in the form he designed. Buried here are 148 Austro-Hungarian and 3 Russian soldiers of the Jewish faith who fell in the First World War. In 1937 a monument designed by Alfred Düntuch, Edward Kreisler and Józef Taube was erected. The Germans destroyed it during the Second World War, and in 2022 it was reconstructed. 26 matzevot (gravestones) have survived, most of them in poor condition. In 2021 a restoration was carried out: the surviving and recovered matzevot were renovated and set up where the cemetery is located.
Did you know?
After the Second World War the soldiers' matzevot that had been found were set up not in the section itself but along the southern wall of the Jewish cemetery.