Serock
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Serock ' is a town at the north bank of the Zegrze lake in the Legionowo County
, Masovian Voivodeship
, Poland
, with 3,616 inhabitants (2004).
Serock has existed as a fortified Masovian settlement since at least 1065. It was granted city rights in 1417 and again in 1923.
, there was a significant Jewish population in Serock. Today there are no Jews. In the summer of 2000, a visiting descendant of former residents, discovered that a number of gravestones (Matzevot) were piled up in the city park http://www.izrael.badacz.org/zydzi_w_polsce/katalog_mazowsze_serock.html. The stones had been gathered by a local non-Jewish resident who also roped off the area. In 2006, a visit by members of the Jewish Records Indexing-Poland project confirmed the situation and now an attempt is being made to restore or at least establish a memorial on the site of the former Jewish cemetery. The United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad http://www.heritageabroad.gov/index.html is involved under the guidance of The Honorable Lee R. Seeman.
Legionowo County
Legionowo County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Legionowo, which lies ...
, Masovian Voivodeship
Masovian Voivodeship
-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
, with 3,616 inhabitants (2004).
Serock has existed as a fortified Masovian settlement since at least 1065. It was granted city rights in 1417 and again in 1923.
Jews in Serock
Before World War IIWorld War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, there was a significant Jewish population in Serock. Today there are no Jews. In the summer of 2000, a visiting descendant of former residents, discovered that a number of gravestones (Matzevot) were piled up in the city park http://www.izrael.badacz.org/zydzi_w_polsce/katalog_mazowsze_serock.html. The stones had been gathered by a local non-Jewish resident who also roped off the area. In 2006, a visit by members of the Jewish Records Indexing-Poland project confirmed the situation and now an attempt is being made to restore or at least establish a memorial on the site of the former Jewish cemetery. The United States Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad http://www.heritageabroad.gov/index.html is involved under the guidance of The Honorable Lee R. Seeman.
External links
- http://www.serock.pl/