Jewish cemetery (Kleve)

Jewish cemetery in Kleve

The Jewish cemetery in Kleve , the district town of the Kleve district in North Rhine-Westphalia , was laid out in the second half of the 17th century. The Jewish cemetery on Ernst-Goldschmidt- Strasse is a protected architectural monument .

There are only a few tombstones left in the Jewish cemetery in Kleve , as many were removed during the National Socialist era . Today there are still 75 tombstones from the period between 1702 and 1937.

literature

• Klaus-Dieter Alicke: Lexicon of the Jewish communities in the German-speaking area. Volume 2: Großbock - Ochtendung. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-08078-9 ( online edition ).
• Dieter Peters : The Jewish cemetery in Kleve. Kleve 1999. (not evaluated)
• Dieter Peters: The Jewish cemetery in Kleve. Calendar for the Klever Land 2000 (not evaluated)

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kleve. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '18.7 "  N , 6 ° 8' 5.9"  E