Jewish cemetery (Humpolec)
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 ′ 32.1 ″ N , 15 ° 22 ′ 17.7 ″ E
The Jewish cemetery in Humpolec (German Humpoletz, especially 1939–1945 also Gumpolds), a town in the Okres Pelhřimov district in the Czech Republic , has existed since the beginning of the 18th century.
history
According to various sources, the cemetery was laid out in two stages in 1710, 1716, 1719 and 1728 and expanded twice in the 19th century. Today it occupies an area of 3658 m². In 1728 the funeral society Chewra Kadischa was founded by the chairman Isák Marek Falg . The cemetery is located less than a kilometer northeast of the center of the city.
The cemetery in Humpolec has been registered as a cultural monument since 1958.
Tombstones
Today there are around 1000 tombstones in the cemetery, the oldest of which date from the 18th century. The last funeral took place in 1942, three months before the deportation of the Jews from Humpolec to the Theresienstadt concentration camp . Jews from the surrounding area were also buried in the cemetery (Lipnice, Kaliště, Želiv, Věž), and tombstones of several famous people can be found there:
- Simon and Marie Mahler, grandparents of the composer Gustav Mahler
- Josef Mahler, uncle of Gustav Mahler, and other family members such as Bernard and Anna Mahler
- Jakob Kafka (1814–1889), grandfather of Franz Kafka , and Leopold Lowy, uncle Franz Kafka's mother, Julie Kafka
- Gravestones of the Bauer family, the relatives of the social democratic politician Otto Bauer ; Members of the family temporarily represented the Jewish community on the Humpolec council
- Gravestones of the Mandler family, a. a. of the parents of the painter Ernst Mandler
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jiří Fiedler , Židovské památky v Čechách a na Moravě , Sefer, 1992; the slightly modified online edition Židovské komunity v Čechách a na Moravě [Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia] is based on this, on the server www2.holocaust.cz / ... ( memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info : The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Historie židovských obcí v Čechách a na Moravě [History of the Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia], Chapter Humpolec , online at: zidovskehrbitovy.cz / ...
- ↑ Adolf Brock, Dějiny Zidu v Humpolci / history of Jews in Humpolec , In: Hugo Gold, (ed.) Title: The Jews and Jewish communities in Bohemia, past and present I. , Jewish book and art publishing house 1934 Brno-Prague, S 193ff., Online edition at: digi.landesbibliothek.at / ... (Czech); Chapter Humpolec, English version, excerpts from: www.jewishgen.org / ...
- ↑ židovský hřbitov ÚSKP 40275 / 3-3039 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
- ↑ Jiří Rychetský, History of the Jewish Community in Humpolec , GemeindeView, online at www.jewishgen.org / ...
