War Cemetery No. 387 - Kraków

War Cemetery No. 387 in Kraków is an Austrian cemetery from the First World War. It is a plot within the new Jewish cemetery at ulica Miodowa 55.

Who is buried here

The cemetery was built by the War Graves Section of the Imperial and Royal Military Command in Kraków, in district XI Kraków Fortress. The Jewish community commissioned a plan from Hans Mayr, but the plot was never built in the form he designed. Originally it consisted of 160 or 161 single graves and 14 collective graves. Buried here are 148 Austro-Hungarian soldiers and three Russian soldiers of the Jewish faith, who fell in the First World War. Among those buried is Władysław Steinhaus.

History of the plot

In 1937 a monument designed by Alfred Düntuch, Edward Kreisler and Józef Taube was put up. The Germans destroyed it during the Second World War, and in 2022 it was reconstructed. After the war, with funds from the Joint, the necropolis was tidied and the surviving matzevot were set upright, but the soldiers' gravestones that were found were placed along the southern wall, not on the plot itself. In 2021 a renovation was carried out: the surviving matzevot, of which there are 26, mostly in poor condition, were restored.

Practical information

• Address: ul. Miodowa 55, Kraków-Kazimierz, within the new Jewish cemetery.
• Check the rules of entry and the hours with the cemetery's manager.