Jewish Cemetery Berlin-Weißensee

The Jewish cemetery in the Weißensee district is one of the largest in Europe, with over 115,000 graves. Its "architecturally remarkable" mourning hall was inaugurated in 1880. Numerous Berlin personalities such as the Hebrew writer Micha Josef Bin Gorion (1865-1921) or the painter Lesser Ury (1861-1931) are buried in the approximately 42-hectare cemetery. The layout of the cemetery goes back to the design of the architect Hugo Licht (1841-1923).

In the entrance area there is a memorial for the victims of the Shoa. It commemorates those murdered in the death camps who found no grave because their ashes were scattered. Already in September 1945 a first memorial plaque had been erected here. On January 27, 1992, the 47th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp, an urn with ashes from Auschwitz was placed in memory of the murdered.
In the cemetery there is also a field of honor with a monumental altar designed by Alexander Beer and the remains of 12,000 Jewish Germans who died in the First World War. The monument, inaugurated in 1927, was evoked by the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten.