Jewish cemetery (Duderstadt)

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The Jewish cemetery Duderstadt is a former Jewish cemetery in Duderstadt , a town in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony .

Jewish cemetery in Duderstadt

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The modern Jewish community in Duderstadt was founded in 1812. For many years, the Duderstadt Jews were given a cattle pasture that was still used without restriction as a burial place for their dead. This state of affairs ended in 1871. The city of Duderstadt allowed the Jewish community to fence an area on this pasture and thus create a cemetery. Instead of the cost assumption applied for by the city - according to the custom at the Christian cemetery - there was a city grant. There are no more gravestones in the 550 m² former cemetery, which is located on Gänseweg behind today's St. Martini Hospital . The previously existing 30 to 35 grave sites were destroyed and leveled in 1942. In 1944/1945, however, the SS guards of the subcamp near the Polte plant in Duderstadt buried four Jewish prisoners from Hungary. According to a later statement from a former SS man, the cemetery was used as a garden at that time. Had become commemorating the in the cemetery and those buried at the Jewish inhabitants Duderstadt, the victims of the Holocaust, in 1953 three provided their names were stele erected. In 2008 the Duderstadt history workshop erected another stone to commemorate the Jewish Hungarians and a child who was born and died in the concentration camp.

From 1953 the JTC was the owner of the cemetery, in 1959 it became the property of the State Association of Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony .

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  1. ^ 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, ISBN 3-89244-753-5 , pages 503 and 506.

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 1.2 "  N , 10 ° 14 ′ 55.2"  E