Jewish cemetery (Beeskow)

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Jewish cemetery in Beeskow

The Beeskow Jewish Cemetery is a monument in the district town of Beeskow in the Oder-Spree district in Brandenburg .

The Jewish cemetery was laid out in the first half of the 19th century and later expanded to the north. The oldest surviving gravestone dates from 1862, the youngest from 1928. The cemetery is located in a forest on the road to Kohlsdorf, a district of Beeskow, near the federal highway 87 .

The Jewish cemetery was not destroyed during the Nazi era . After young people had devastated the cemetery around 1960, those responsible wanted to convert it into a memorial with good intentions. In the mid-1980s, the cemetery was redesigned. Only twelve graves are in their original location. The younger tombstones were grouped into a monument in the center of the cemetery , surrounded by larger tombstones . The inside of this block is filled with fragments of tombstones. Older tombstones were placed along the cemetery wall.

In 1988 the Jewish cemetery was desecrated with painted swastikas. In October 2003, the surrounding wall and tombstones were smeared with anti-Semitic slogans.

literature

  • Klaus Arlt: Evidence of Jewish Culture. Memorial sites in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Brandenburg, Berlin, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia . Tourist-Verlag, Berlin 1992, ISBN 978-3-350-00780-6 , p. 83 .
  • Michael Brocke, Eckehart Ruthenberg, Kai Uwe Schulenburg: Stone and name: the Jewish cemeteries in East Germany (new federal states / GDR and Berlin) . Institute Church and Judaism, Berlin 1994, ISBN 978-3-923095-19-3 , p. 247-250 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jewish cemeteries in Brandenburg 1. In: alemannia-judaica.de. Retrieved November 30, 2016 .
  2. ^ Frank Schwarz: Jewish cemetery desecrated . In: Märkische Oderzeitung . October 17, 2003.

Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 49.9 ″  N , 14 ° 13 ′ 12.6 ″  E