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Jewish cemetery of Stropkov

Practical info

Type of location: Cemetery

Jewish cemetery of Stropkov

Tisinec 58, 091 01 Tisinec

Historical description

Stropkov

Approximately thirty miles northeast of Presov, the small city of Stropkov had one of the largest Jewish communities in the region and was an important center of Judaism. Many of its Jews arrived from Poland in the seventeenth century, victims of the pogroms who ... Read more