Jewish cemetery (Blumenthal)

Blumenthal Jewish cemetery

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The Blumenthal Jewish Cemetery is located in the Blumenthal district of the Hellenthal community in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

In the Jewish cemetery , which was occupied from before 1894 to 1937, there are still 46  tombstones ( mazewot ). In the Second World War and Russian prisoners of war were buried there, in 1949 after Hollerath later to and Soviet war cemetery Simmerath-Rurberg were reburied. The cemetery is in the list of monuments entered the town of Hellenthal.

On November 20, 1988, a memorial stone was inaugurated in the cemetery.

Web links

Commons : Jewish cemetery  - collection of images

• Jewish cemetery Blumenthal at the central archive for research into the history of Jews in Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hellenthal-eifel.com/fileadmin/dokumente/Denkmallisten/Denkmal_Kirchen.pdf  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.hellenthal-eifel.com/index.php?id=47  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 '23.5 "  N , 6 ° 27' 21.7"  E