Jewish cemetery Helmstedt

Staked-out area within the St. Stephani municipal cemetery, which was laid out in the late 19th century. 1876 Creation of the Jewish cemetery in the north-western corner of the St. Stephani cemetery. There are 14 gravestones from the period between 1892 and 1955 on the 165 m² site. 79 people were buried in the cemetery between 1933 and 1945, almost all of whom were Russian forced laborers, who are commemorated by a memorial stone. On four gravestones from the period 1910 - 1930, the sign of the cross replaces the word 'died'. There is also a weathered oak stele with the inscriptions "Charlemann Schneider" and "Russia". This is the grave of a Russian Jew who died as a prisoner of war in Helmstedt in 1918, shortly before the end of the First World War.

Excerpt from: https://denkmalatlas.niedersachsen.de/viewer/metadata/32711996/2/-/