Jewish cemetery (Schlitz)

Entrance to the Jewish cemetery in Schlitz

Tombstones

The Jewish cemetery in Schlitz , a town in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse , was built in 1898/99. The Jewish cemetery is in the north of the city, about 100 meters above the communal cemetery on Grabenberg .

history

The first burial in the cemetery took place in 1901, the last in December 1938 (Aron Stern, died in Buchenwald concentration camp ). The Jewish people who died in Bad Salzschlirf were also buried here on the basis of an agreement from 1909. Other burials from Bad Salzschlirf were made in Fulda .

According to a documentation made in 1941 by the last community leader Julius Windmüller, there were 31 graves in three rows. A stone wall surrounds the cemetery, which is 6.92 ares in size.

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 version ).

Web links

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

Jewish cemetery Schlitz near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)

Individual evidence

^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved November 24, 2012.
^ Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved November 24, 2012.

50.681973 9.554392Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 55.1 ″ N , 9 ° 33 ′ 15.8 ″ E

[1] Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved November 24, 2012.

[2] Commemorative Book - Victims of the Persecution of Jews under the National Socialist Tyranny in Germany 1933 - 1945 . Retrieved November 24, 2012.