A 16th-century Jewish cemetery in southeastern Poland will be commemorated with a fence and symbolic gravestones, according to Polish officials. Nothing remains of the original cemetery in Przemysl, located near the Ukranian border, after the Nazis uprooted all the tombstones and used them to build roads. Like the rest of Polish Jewry, most of Przemysl’s 20,000 Jews were killed in Nazi death camps.
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