Road workers on a construction site in the Polish city of Radom, about 100 km south of Warsaw, have discovered nearly one hundred multi-colored and well preserved Jewish tombstones in the ground.

This is the largest single 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 may explain how the stones made their way into the ground.

Radom had once 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 archaeological find.

(Source & Photo: EJP Press)