The cemetery in Elsdorf

The Jewish cemetery of Elsdorf is located at the large sugar factory. The cemetery was acquired in 1847. The oldest stone dates from 1791, the site was already used as a cemetery before the acquisition. Today there are about 80 graves. Graves were moved here, which had to give way to the open pit coal mining. A stone commemorates Russian forced laborers who were killed by bombs. A surviving Jew had a memorial stone erected.

If the open-cast lignite mine in Hambacher Forst is expanded as planned, this cemetery will soon no longer exist.