Old Jewish Cemetery (Tábor)
Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 14 ° 39 ′ 18.5 ″ E
The Old Jewish Cemetery in Tábor (German Tabor ), a Czech town in the South Bohemian Region , was established in 1634. The Jewish cemetery has been a protected cultural monument since 1988 .
The old Jewish cemetery is 300 meters southwest of the Bechyn Gate at the end of the Park Pod Kotnovem . The last burials took place there around 1893. Due to a lack of space, a new cemetery was laid out in the 1880s .
During the German occupation, the cemetery was leveled in 1941. Only two gravestones have survived: the cemetery attendant converted one stone into a stone bench, and a second stone was found by chance during maintenance work in 1972.
On October 23, 1955, a memorial for the victims of the Second World War was unveiled. Since 2002 a memorial by the Prague sculptor Karel Peřina has been commemorating the victims of the Shoah .
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 ).
