Jewish cemetery (hair)

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The Haaren Jewish Cemetery is located in the Haaren district of the city of Aachen in the city region of Aachen ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The Jewish cemetery was occupied from 1838 to 1938. There are still five tombstones ( mazewot ). The cemetery was completely destroyed in 1938. About 40 tombstones are said to have been used as building material. It was not until 1997 that some grave monuments were found on private property. Four of these stones and around 70 fragments were put together to form a memorial wall in the cemetery.

The Jews from Haaren buried their dead before 1838 in the Lütticher Strasse cemeteries in Aachen and Broichweiden .

Memorial plaque WgdV

At the Haaren Jewish cemetery, a plaque from the Ways Against Forgetting project reminds of the events around the cemetery in 1938/1939. It is engraved:

“In 1839 the Haaren community laid out its Jewish cemetery. In November 1938, a few days after the Reichspogromnacht, citizens of Haaren knocked over all the gravestones. In autumn 1939 the stones from the entire cemetery were transported to the village. Until 1997 they served as embankment wall on Alt-Haarener-Straße. "

literature

Elfi Pracht : Jewish cultural heritage in North Rhine-Westphalia. Part I. Cologne district . Cologne 1997, pp. 33–34 (articles on architectural and art monuments in the Rhineland, vol. 34.1), ISBN 3-7616-1322-9 .

Web links

Commons : Jewish cemetery (hair) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

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