Siedce Gravestones

One of the difficult issues in the Holocaust is the use of Jewish gravestones for street pavement. This was done during these dark in some places.

Siedlce was one of such dark places. Here is the photo that is archived in Yad Vashem Museum that show one of the places ... seems to be a case where the gravestone is almost intact. It is not clear if this photo was done during the war when the payment was done or was it after the war if and when the stones were collected and placed elsewhere.  Here we can see that the photo was taken on the street an not in the cemetery.

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Source: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/s637-469/16600231861828893898.jpg

Some of he gravestones were broken like this one:

Source: http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/s637-469/16834312460144349336.jpg

Continuing here is a man standing next to a pile of shattered gravestones ... collected from the streets or prepared to move to the street ... how can anyone tell.

Sad ... so to complete the observation ... here are some more Broken gravestones.