The Jewish Cemetery () in Tarnogród was probably established in 1588.Burchard dates the cemetery back to the 18th century. Located to the east of the synagogue, it covered an area of 1.8 hectares. During World War II, the Nazi Germans occupying Poland desecrated and destroyed the cemetery. From the information board of the cemetery shown in the first picture on the left taken by Jolanta Dziubińska. A few decades after the end of the war, from 1986 until 1990, the cemetery was renovated and partly surrounded by a wall to mark and protect it. In the Polish version it says additionally that the cemetery is partly surrounded by a wall (pol. "w części ogrodzony jest murem"). From the information board of the cemetery shown in the first picture on the left taken by Jolanta Dziubińska. Around 100 pieces of recovered tombstones were placed within the area.Burchard estimates that altogether roughly 1000 matzevahs from the cemetery have survived. Some of the tombstones were embedded into the wall, becoming the so-called "commemoration wall". There is a monument to the memory of Poles of Jewish origin from Tarnogród who were murdered by the Germans in 1942.
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A map of Leżajsk by the Polish Military Geographical Institute 47th strip 35th pole Warsaw of 1938.
External links The Jewish cemetery in Tarnogród in the Polish Virtual Shtetl site. Pictures of the cemetery in the Cmentarze żydowskie site (pl.)