Jewish cemeteries (Bocholt)
Three Jewish cemeteries were established in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Bocholt in the Borken district since the early 18th century , of which only one still exists today.
East wall cemetery
From around 1700 to 1810 this cemetery served the Jewish community as a place where they could bury their deceased. It was in front of the city wall on the east wall.
Old graveyard
The 3,606 m² cemetery on the street Auf der Recke was used by the Jewish community from 1810 to 1940. The first burial took place in 1822.
In 1940 it was forcibly dissolved. Polish prisoners of war were forced to move to the New Cemetery.
New cemetery
The 3,543 m² cemetery on Vardingholter Straße has served the Jewish community as Beth Olam (House of Eternity) since 1940.
The 94 tombstones that still exist today come from the Old Cemetery. 126 deceased were affected by the reburial campaign.
The grave of Sara Cleffmann, who died in 1927, came from the Jewish cemetery in Rhede.
The Soviet prisoners of war, who were also buried in this cemetery, were transferred to the Russian war cemetery in a further reburial operation in 1964 .
literature
- Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .
Web links
- Bocholt. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 38.2 " N , 6 ° 39 ′ 51.5" E