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"The Czeladz - Bedzin Cemetery is located at 64 Bedzinksa Street in the city of Czeladz. About 3000 tombstones remain in an area of 1.6 hectares. The earliest burial is from 1916. Men are buried on the left hand side of the cemetery and women are buried on the right hand side. Generally, people from Bedzin were buried in the front part of the cemetery and people from Czeladz were buried in the back part of the cemetery. In the back of the cemetery is a mass grave containing the remains of hundreds of Jews who were murdered in the Bedzin ghetto during the Holocaust. For full details of the Cemetery indexing project click here.
For information on how to obtain the key for the cemetery, contact the Jewish Community of Katowice, 13 Młyńska St., 40-098 Katowice, ph.: (+48 32) 253 02 09, fax (+48 32) 253 77 42, e-mail: gwzkatowice@poczta.onet.pl."
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