Jewish cemetery (Diepholz)

Memorial at the Jewish cemetery in Diepholz

The Diepholz Jewish Cemetery is a former Jewish cemetery that existed in Diepholz ( Diepholz district , Lower Saxony ) from 1774 to 1942 .

history

The former cemetery on the corner of Schlesierstrasse and Pommernstrasse was occupied from 1774 to 1938. During the Nazi era , the cemetery was devastated and the tombstones were used to build roads. Parts of the tombstones were found in 1994 while the road was being built. In 1997, a memorial was erected from the fragments on the cemetery grounds.

literature

• Falk Liebezeit, Herbert Major : On the trail of Jewish history in Diepholz. With a complete list of the members of the Jewish community in Diepholz. (Publications of the Diepholz City Archives, Volume 12), Schröder, Diepholz 1999, ISBN 978-3-89728-123-3 .
• Nancy Kratochwill-Gertich, Antje C. Naujoks: Diepholz. In: Herbert Obenaus (Ed. In collaboration with David Bankier and Daniel Fraenkel): Historical manual of the Jewish communities in Lower Saxony and Bremen . Volume 1 and 2 (1668 pp.), Göttingen 2005, pp. 468-478.

Web links

• Diepholz. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany; here: Lower Saxony
• therein: Diepholz Jewish cemetery

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 51.6 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 59.5 ″  E