Online Archive of Jewish Cemeteries

On the company property of the merchant Salomon was also created in 1880 a cemetery. which was devastated in 1938. The undestroyed 24 gravestones from there were placed in 1961 in the municipal cemetery in Bismarcker Straße.

Coming from the parking lot on Bismarker Street, you pass a house in the cemetery and turn right in front of the chapel. After a grave field for fallen of the I. World War and the grave of Otto Reuter lies on the left of the way the field with the Jewish gravestones, next to it graves of Cussian prisoners of war 1914/18.

If one enters the cemetery, one finds immediately behind the entrance a large information board with the most important data:

According to the council minutes of the city of Werne from November 1698, further local “vergleitete”*) Jews were buried on the Schüttenwall. The youngest burial took place secretly on 17.07.1942, since at that time a public burial on a Jewish cemetery was forbidden.

Today there are 37 graves and 35 gravestones on the cemetery grounds.

A Jewish cemetery can be traced in Rathenow since 1699. This old cemetery had to make way for a city expansion in 1905 and was abandoned. Outside the city, near the former village of Neufriedrichsdorf, a new cemetery was established, which was destroyed in 1941, the perpetrators were children, members of the Jungvolk. After the war, the cemetery – or what was left of it – fell into oblivion, which was used as a Müllplatz. In the 1970s there was aufgeräumt, the 13 gravestones found thereby were set up in 1993 before the rear cemetery wall.

In 1865, a Jewish cemetery was established at the edge of the general cemetery, until then, the Jewish cemetery in the neighboring Tangermünde had been used.

The Jewish cemetery is located within the cemetery at the Uengelinger gate, in its northern area. From the gate opposite house 2 of the University of Magdeburg-Stendal at the Osterburger Straße one follows the path straight ahead until shortly before the opposite cemetery wall, then turns left and has in front of him the enclosure of the Jewish cemetery, a half-high open brick wall. It includes about 50 gravestones.

The 300 sqm large cemetery is hidden in the industrial area „Im Köhl“ at the junction of „Auf der Koppel“ with Wienbachstra&szlig. The cemetery „Auf der Koppel“ was bought in 1838  by Abraham Moises. The cemetery was destroyed during the Nazi period, all gravestones are missing. Eight Gräber show a stone border.

The memorial stone at the entrance was designed by Sister Paula (= Tisa von der Schulenburg, Ursulinerin):  "To the memory of our Jüdischen Mitbürger, who became victims of the tyranny in the years 1933-1945.

The Jewish Cemetery Wingst is a Jewish cemetery in the municipality of Wingst (joint municipality Land Hadeln) in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony. The Jewish cemetery in the Wingst was the burial site for the synagogue community of Neuhaus(Oste) and surrounding places

Jüdische inhabitants are documented here since about 1730, 1840 formed seven families from Beverstedt, Schiffdorf and Wulsdorf a religious community, their prayer room was located in a private house. A small burial ground was laid out in the parcel „Hinter dem Busche“.

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