Jewish cemetery (Wassenberg)
The Wassenberg Jewish Cemetery is located in the town of Wassenberg in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
In the Jewish cemetery , which was occupied from 1688 to 1930, there are still 17 tombstones ( mazewot ). The cemetery was entered on the city's list of monuments under number 74 on May 25, 2005 .
The cemetery, directly opposite the town hall on Roermonder Straße, is behind a bus stop. Next to the Jewish burial place is an old Christian cemetery. The memorial stone of the Jewish cemetery reads: Cemetery of the Jewish community of Wassenberg / Synagogue of the Jewish community of Wassenberg, destroyed November 10, 1938 .
On the right side of the Jewish cemetery there is a memorial which Walter Reis, who emigrated to Canada, had erected in 1992 for his sister Betty Reis, who were murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp , and his grandparents Jacob and Johanna Hertz. Werner Reis' name was added after his death in 2005. The stone is in the shade of a maple tree that grew on his property in Toronto .
Web links
- Wassenberg Jewish cemetery at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany
- The cemetery in the list of monuments of the city of Wassenberg with a detailed description and photos
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 6 ° 9 ′ 21.4 ″ E