Old Jewish Cemetery (Tachov)
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 ′ 37.7 " N , 12 ° 38 ′ 23.3" E
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Tachov (German Tabor ), a Czech town in the West Bohemian region of Pilsen , was laid out around 1615. The Jewish cemetery has been a protected cultural monument since 2007 .
The grave of Rabbi Nachum Sofer, who died in 1815 and was venerated by Orthodox Jews as a "miracle rabbi ", is located in the cemetery .
During the November pogroms , the National Socialists devastated the cemetery. The cemetery later became one of the largest mass graves in Bohemia: the bodies of more than 600 concentration camp prisoners were burned on the site and their ashes were buried here. Since 1989 a memorial commemorates the mass grave.
literature
- Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 3: Ochtrup - Zwittau. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08079-6 ( online edition ).
Web links
Commons : Old Jewish Cemetery (Tachov) - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description as a cultural monument
- ↑ Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area (online version): Art. Tachau (Bohemia) .
