The former cemetery on the property ‚Am Paschenberg’ 5, next to the district hospital is no longer recognizable as such: dense tree population and ivy growth, only in the rearmost area is an upright (grave?) -Stone fragment to make out, possibly other fragments lie on the ground under the ivy. Towards the street it has a completely rusted, half decayed lattice gate. It is questionable whether this was really a Jewish cemetery.

The cemetery is neglected.

Already in 1821, a first cemetery had been established not far from today's memorial site, in 1867 a new, larger one was opened.

The cemetery was destroyed in 1938 and restored after 1960 as a memorial site.

Bobby Rootveld (guitar, vocals, percussion) and Sanna van Elst (vocals, recorder, melodica, glockenspiel) play together since 2001 (sometimes with son Levi) under the name „DUO NIHZ“. The name is derived from Dutch and is an abbreviation for „Niet In Het Zwart“ (= Not In Black Clothes). Both performers studied at the Artez Conservatory in Enschede/NL. Originally based in the Netherlands, since 2010 they own a permanent home with concert hall, gallery and course center.

The orphanage was founded in response to the pogroms against the Jewish population after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. In the course of this, the Berlin Relief Committee brought 39 Jewish boys aged 6 to 11 from Russia to Berlin in 1882. For their accommodation, a plot of land was purchased in Pankow at Berliner Strasse 121, which was occupied on October 22, 1882. Free places were filled with orphans from the Jewish community in Berlin.