Road workers on a construction site in the Polish city of Radom, about 60 miles south of Warsaw, have discovered nearly a hundred well preserved multi-colored Jewish tombstones buried in the ground. It was the single largest find of Jewish gravestones in Poland for many years. Many Jewish gravestones were removed during World War II to be used for paving roads by the Nazis, which could explain how the stones made their way into the ground.
Radom once had a large Jewish community and Jews who fled the city in 1942 at the time of mass deportations participated in the ghetto of Warsaw uprising and in partisan battles against the Nazis. The Foundation for the Preservation of Jewish Heritage in Poland is working to preserve the tombstones. They will eventually be placed at the Radom Jewish cemetery. Since the stones are painted and artistically decorated, they are considered a rare Jewish archeological find.
