Cemetery

The Jüdische cemetery of Schüttorf is located at the Samernsche Strasse  in a small forest. It was used in the 17th century for burials. It still has 19 gravestones today. Jews settled in Schüttorf probably as early as 1700. The community always had only a few Jewish families. They belonged to the synagogue community of Bad Bentheim.

There are 50 gravestones in the cemetery. The memorial stone was erected by Mottel Schwarz, a survivor of the Shoah.

The cemetery is located on Görlitzer Straße (B 99), on the northöeastern edge of the city. Coming from Görlitz you cross a traffic circle with the turnoff to the B178 (to Löbau and Bautzen). Immediately behind it on the right (western) side of the road is the cemetery.

A Jewish cemetery must have existed in Schermbeck already in the middle of the 17th century, in the church records of the Protestant church several Jews are mentioned who were buried in Schermbeck.

It is not clear whether it was the same cemetery that exists today at the „Bösenberg“. The present cemetery is located in a residential area. There are 31 rather plain stones, also two memorial stones for people who were murdered in camps.

Due to the East-West division of the city of Berlin, the Jewish community of Berlin was also divided into East and West. This meant for the Jews in the western part of the city: a new cemetery had to be built. In the north-western part of Grunewald, which here borders on Heerstr., an area of about 3.4 hectares was purchased in 1955 for the construction of a cemetery. This was consecrated in 1956 and until today über 5.000 burials took place here.

Only a memorial plaque, the restored grave of Moses Mendelssohn and some exhibited historic gravestones reminds today of this Jewish cemetery and its destruction by the National Socialists.After the Judenkiewer Spandau (1314 documentary mentioned)[see link], the Jewish cemetery in Berlin-Mitte is the älteste of the Berlin Jewish community. Today located in the center of the city, the cemetery was established and consecrated in 1672, well before the site. Exact document numbers are not clearly ascertainable.

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.

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.