Cemetery Synagogue (Warsaw)

Cemetery synagogue in Warsaw (model)

The Warsaw Cemetery Synagogue was the synagogue of the Jewish cemetery of Warsaw Jews.

history

The cemetery synagogue was on Okopowa Street. The building was erected in 1877 according to plans by the architect Adolf Schimmelpfennig and destroyed by the German occupiers on May 15, 1943, one day before the Great Synagogue was blown up. This destruction marked the end of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto . The two death halls next to the synagogue were used to keep the dead, on the left for the men, on the right for the women.

Web links

Commons : Cemetery Synagogue (Warsaw)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Virtual Shtetl - Mortuary in Okopowa Street (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See daily report of May 16, 1943 ( Memento of the original of July 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger in the Stroop report . 

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 42.2 "  N , 20 ° 58 ′ 38.3"  E