The cemetery in Plaszow

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Only a few kilometers south of Kaziemierz there were two Jewish cemeteries on the Ulica Abrahama in Plaszow. One was located on the Ulica Abrahama. It has not been preserved. Another cemetery was located in the north of the camp area. The grave slabs were removed, only the borders of the graves are preserved.

New cemetery Ziskov

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From 1890 was buried in the new Jewish cemetery in the east of the suburb Ziskov. The cemetery is still used by Prague Jews today. Next to old gravestones we can find steles commemorating the expulsion of Jüdic communities by the Nazis.

The new cemetery of Lucerne

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The new cemetery was inaugurated in 1943. He also adjoins the municipal cemetery, but östlich. He is so far occupied with about 400 Gräber

In the front part of the new cemetery is a mortuary. While one finds also obelisks and other forms as well as decorations with the gravestones in the old cemetery, the present orthodox adjustment of the municipality is recognizable also at the einförmigen and unadorned gravestones of the new cemetery.

The cemetery in Schüttorf

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The Jüdische cemetery of Schüttorf is located at the Samernsche Strasse  in a small forest. It was used in the 17th century for burials. It still has 19 gravestones today. Jews settled in Schüttorf probably as early as 1700. The community always had only a few Jewish families. They belonged to the synagogue community of Bad Bentheim.

The cemetery in Zittau

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There are 50 gravestones in the cemetery. The memorial stone was erected by Mottel Schwarz, a survivor of the Shoah.

The cemetery is located on Görlitzer Straße (B 99), on the northöeastern edge of the city. Coming from Görlitz you cross a traffic circle with the turnoff to the B178 (to Löbau and Bautzen). Immediately behind it on the right (western) side of the road is the cemetery.

The cemetery of Schermbeck

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A Jewish cemetery must have existed in Schermbeck already in the middle of the 17th century, in the church records of the Protestant church several Jews are mentioned who were buried in Schermbeck.

It is not clear whether it was the same cemetery that exists today at the „Bösenberg“. The present cemetery is located in a residential area. There are 31 rather plain stones, also two memorial stones for people who were murdered in camps.

Grain food wholesale - N.J. Homburger

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The traces of Nathan Jakob Homburger's ancestors can be traced back in Karlsruhe to the year 1722, when the great-grandson Löw Homburger, born in 1694 in Homburg, received a letter of protection on July 30, 1722 from Margrave Carl of Baden. 4 generations later, Nathan Jakob Homburger laid the foundation for the flour, produce and colonial goods wholesale business. Ferdinand Homburger, the only son of the married couple Nathan Jakob and Babette Homburger, née Baer, later followed in his father's footsteps. With his marriage he became a partner in the business in December 1890.