Jewish cemetery (Cronenbourg)

Jewish cemetery in Cronenbourg

Memorial to commemorate the 86 victims of human experiments by August Hirt

The Jewish cemetery in Cronenbourg , a suburb of Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department in the French region of Grand Est , was created 1910th The Jewish cemetery is on the road to Oberhausbergen .

The Jewish cemetery in Cronenbourg is still the central cemetery of the Jewish community in Strasbourg. After the 1801 cemetery in Koenigshoffen was fully occupied with around 4000 graves at the beginning of the 20th century, the cemetery in Cronenbourg could be laid out.

The cemetery contains several monuments. In 1951 a memorial was inaugurated with the names of 840 members of the Strasbourg Jewish community who were deported and murdered during the Nazi era. Another memorial, inaugurated in September 1955 and renewed in December 2005, commemorates 86 Jews who perished as a result of human experiments in the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp under the direction of August Hirt . In the funeral hall of the cemetery there is a memorial plaque with the names of the parishioners who were deported and murdered from the Orthodox Jewish community of Adath Israel.

There is also a geniza in the cemetery .

Graves of important personalities

• Jean Kahn (1929–2013), President of the CRIF and the European Jewish Congress

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 (Cronenbourg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cronenbourg Jewish cemetery near Alemannia Judaica (with many photos)

Coordinates: 48 ° 35 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 19 ″  E