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.

There was probably an old cemetery, which fell victim to construction work, the beginnings of which are not known, and which was replaced by the current one around 1904.

The Jewish cemetery is located within the general cemetery, opposite the main entrance in its rear part. It is separated from it by a wire mesh fence, the gate is unlocked. At the time of its use it had its own gate to the dirt road behind the cemetery. About 20 gravestones stand on the well-kept grounds.

In the past, the Jews of Iserlohn were not allowed to bury their dead within the city fortifications. The burials therefore took place in front of the city wall on a spoil site near Dicken Turm . In 1743 a building was to be erected there. The cemetery therefore had to be abandoned. A new walled cemetery was established at the pit Gröfeken on the Dördel.[1]

This cemetery was occupied in the 19th and 20th centuries. It was destroyed in 1938, during the Nazi period, and restored after World War II.