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Jewish cemetery Smalininkai (Schmalleningken)

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About the foundation of the cemetery there is no information. However, it is assumed that burials took place here over a period of about 100 years. A burial register is not handed down.

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The Jewish cemetery is not far from the train station, it is marked, there is an archway and a memorial stone.

The Yiddish inscription reads in transcription: "The old Yiddish Beit Olam (Hebrew "cemetery") / Holy is the memory of the deceased" Below it in Lithuanian: "Old Jewish Cemetery"

Jewish cemetery in Pieniężno (Mehlsack)

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In the 19th century a Jewish cemetery was opened outside the city, on the edge of the Judenberg. The cemetery, laid out on a rectangular ground plan, had an area of about 0.2 ha. In the former Jewish cemetery there is a fairly well preserved war cemetery for Soviet soldiers.

Today the cemetery is located in the northeastern part of the municipal cemetery, next to the municipal stadium. The old trees of the cemetery have been preserved. (Information from POLIN Virtual Shtetl)

Jewish cemetery Dzierzgoń (Christburg)

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The Jewish cemetery in Dzierzgon (German: Christburg) is located about 1.7 km southwest of the city center, at the intersection of Słoneczna Street with the dirt road, which turns at a right angle about opposite house number 3. After about 170 meters on the left you will find the breakthrough in the cemetery wall between the trees.

Tahara House Allenstein (Olsztyn)

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Allenstein was the capital of a government district in East Prussia and belonged to the German Reich until 1945. Since the beginning of the 19th century there was a Jewish community here. The building for purification (Hebrew tahara), i.e. washing of corpses and for mourning ceremonies at the Jewish Cemetery was built from 1911 to 1913 according to the plans of the Allenstein-born architect Erich Mendelsohn. After the Second World War, the building served the city of Olsztyn as an archive building for a long time.

Jewish cemetery Mikołajki (Nikolaiken)

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The cemetery served the Jewish community of the East Prussian village of Nikolajken. The region belonged to the German Reich until 1945. Mixed inscriptions, in Hebrew and German, are most common. The Hebrew version was often engraved on the front of the gravestone, while the German version is on the back, or the Hebrew version is on the upper part and the German version is on the lower part of the matzeva (gravestones). The cemetery must have been devastated both before and after 1945, but it is still one of the best preserved Jewish cemeteries in the Masuria.

The cemetery of Enschede

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The Jews first used a cemetery at the Molenstraat. This cemetery  was demolished in 1947 and replaced by the cemetery on the Kneedweg. When the Kneedweg was full, the cemetery at the Noord Esmarkerrondweg was put into use. In addition, there is still a cemetery at the Hengelosestraat.

The Jewish cemetery of Zeckendorf

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The cemetery was established in 1617 between Zeckendorf and Demmelsdorf. Until the middle of the 17th century, the dead from Bamberg and from many surrounding villages were also buried here.

The cemetery has been damaged several times in recent years and significantly destroyed.  Today, about 600 gravestones are still preserved. It is located about 1 km östlich of Zeckendorf and is difficult to find. The key you get at the municipal administration.

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Jewish cemetery Zehdenick

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The cemetery is located north of the city center at the Friedrich-Engels-Stra;e (= B109 -> Templin), on the out of town right side of the street, just behind the Catholic church. Approximately againstüber the Einmündung of the Marienstra;e leads a short path directly to him.

In order to enter him canönnen one must however pick up the key. Against deposit of an identity card o.ä. one receives it with the tourist information in the city hall, Am market 11.

The cemetery was put on 1766 and umfa;te originally approx. 8 ar, more than the today eingezäunte area.