קארטשעוו — אוהל רבי אברהם יהושע העשיל טווערסקי מלויעב וטשודנוב

Karczew — Ohel of Reb Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Twersky of Loyev and Chudnov

Karczew · קארטשעוו

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Jewish cemetery, ul. Otwocka, Karczew, Otwock County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland — confirm exact location locally

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1.For decades nobody knew where this kever was. The cemetery was badly damaged in the war and afterwards, the Rebbe's grave was lost, and it was only located and restored in 5777 (2017) by Chernobyler chassidim — so what you are visiting is a recovered site, not an unbroken one.
2.The cemetery is on ul. Otwocka in Karczew, on a broad sandy rise. Beside the ohel there is a board commemorating the murder of Karczew's Jews; mass shootings were carried out on this ground during the war and the victims are buried where they fell. An inventory in 2010 counted 108 matzevot.
3.Karczew is not Otwock. This cemetery served the Otwock kehillah, but the Otwock and Anielin cemeteries are separate sites a few kilometres away — do not let a map send you to the wrong one.
4.The Committee for the Remembrance of the Jews of Otwock and Karczew has cared for this site since 2002; contact them or ask in Karczew to confirm the exact position of the ohel before you set out.

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Warsaw (WAW)Warsaw Chopin· 21 km · 13 mi straight-line· major hub
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Lublin (LUZ)Lublin· 138 km · 86 mi straight-line· regional
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Rzeszów (RZE)Rzeszów-Jasionka· 226 km · 140 mi straight-line· regional
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Who is buried here

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רבי אברהם יהושע העשיל טווערסקי

Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heshel Twersky

Rebbe of Loyev and Chudnov

Yahrzeit: י״ח תמוז · 5674 / 1914

Born 10 Teves 5620 (1860), son of Reb Mordechai of Loyev in the Chernobyl-Twersky line, he led as Rebbe in Loyev and in Chudnov (Chudniv, Ukraine); in 1914 he fell ill, travelled to the health resort of Otwock, died there on 18 Tammuz and was buried in nearby Karczew, where an ohel was raised over him. He was never the 'Otwocker Rebbe' — Otwock is only where he died — and he is not Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski (1930-2021), the American author, who is buried in Eretz Yisroel.

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