Krakow New Jewish Cemetery

This guide to Kraków's New Jewish Cemetery starts not at its gate but at the villa of Amon Goeth, the SS officer who ran the nearby Plaszow camp, whose men tore up thousands of headstones from this cemetery to pave his own driveway and courtyard. It traces the cemetery back to its founding in 1800 on land bought from Augustinian monks, and the century of rabbis, merchants and doctors it came to hold before the Germans closed it, sold off its finest stones, and left the rest smashed across the grounds. Walk the grounds slowly and look for the fragments still set into the boundary walls.