Online Archive of Jewish Cemeteries

Bodenheim

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The first Jews settled in Bodenheim after the Thirty Years' War. Around the middle of the 19th century, the community comprised about 120 members, then their number declined due to emigration to about 45 in 1933.

The Jewish cemetery in Bodenheim was used from 1833 to 1937 . Today's cultural monument is located at the southwestern edge of the village, at the extension of the Ebersheimer Weg. The entrance is closed, but at various points through gaps in the hedge you can see the still 43 existing gravestones.

Jewish cemetery Bitburg

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The cemetery is located northeast of the city center, near the B 257 (Dauner/Wittlicher Straße), in the southeast corner of the cemetery on Erdofer Straße, direct access to the Jewish burial ground from Talweg.

On the cemetery, which was used only from the late 19th to the early 20th century, today there are only 5 gravestones (all in the form of obelisks), three with German inscription, dated 1900, 1904 and 1906, one with Hebrew and one without inscription. In memory of the victims of the Holocaust from Bitburg, a memorial plaque with 30 names was erected.

The cemetery of Rodenberg

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In 1830, a plot of land of about 1500 square meters on the town beach, at the "Kilianskammer", on today's street "Am Judenfriedhof", was acquired and the cemetery was established. He also served the Jews of the neighboring villages as a burial ground, today there are 99 tombstones preserved, making it the largest Jewish cemetery in the Schaumburg region.

The cemetery of Alpen

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The Jewish cemetery of Alpen is located at the Menzelner Strasse in the east of the Ulrichstrasse far outside the village. The place is laid out as a spacious lawn with surrounding hedge.

Occupancy was from 1792 to the year 1936. 56 gravestones are still preserved. Many gravestones were destroyed in the past.

 

Cemetery Ahlen

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The old Jewish cemetery existed since 1788. It was dissolved in 1938, because it had been occupied for a long time. The new cemetery next to the Christian municipal cemetery survived the time until today relatively unscathed. Today there are still 106 gravestones here.

Jewish cemetery (Ahaus)

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The cemetery was located in front of the new gate at the time of its foundation. There are 57 gravestones on the site. The oldest dates from 1844, the youngest from 1937. In 1940, there were still 2 burials. Gravestones were not allowed to be placed at that time.

Jews in Adorf

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Adorf is a small community in the north of Hesse in the Waldeck region. 

Jews settled in Adorf since the late 18th century. In 1872 the community counted 75 members, in 1933 still 20. Some Jews were able to emigrate, 8 became victims of persecution. 

In 1830 a synagogue and a school were built in the center of the village near St. John's Church. The synagogue was sold and demolished in 1937. The interior was destroyed in November 1938. 

The community had a school with a teacher and a mikvah.

Alder, Jewish cemetery

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The cemetery is located at the corner of Schermbecker Straße / Westerholten.

From 1842 the members of the Cahn family were buried here. As the eleventh and last were buried here in 1933 Levi Cahn.

The cemetery was not desecrated during the Nazi period. In 1961, the cemetery was accidentally rediscovered during an inventory. The municipality bought the plot from the heirs of the Cahn family in 1963 and has maintained the cemetery ever since.

You can see four gravesites, all without stone. In the center, a plaque commemorates the Cahn family.