Jewish cemetery (Jaunjelgava)
The Jaunjelgava Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery (Ebreju kapsēta) in Jaunjelgava (German: Friedrichstadt ) in the Zemgale region in Latvia .
The cemetery has 3000 graves, 700 tombstones , the funeral hall , the cholera cemetery and the memorial for the victims of the Holocaust .
history
The cemetery was laid out in 1848. The remains of the Jews from Jaunjelgava who perished in the Holocaust were buried in the northeastern part of the cemetery. Until the mid-1950s the cemetery was covered with large bushes; its limits were no longer recognizable. Nobody cared about it. By the end of the 1980s, forest almost overgrown the cemetery, and some trees even grew over the gravestones. The mourning hall probably lost its roof during the military actions of World War II .
See also
literature
- Grigory Smirin (Ed.): Latvia. Synagogues, Jewish Cemeteries, Burial Places of the Holocaust Victims. Map of Memorable Places of Jewish History. Shamir, Riga 2005, ISBN 9984-9835-1-X (scale 1: 600,000), (in English, Russian and Latvian).
- Meyer Meler: Ebreju kapsētas Latvijā. = Jewish Cemeteries in Latvia. = Evrejskie kladbišče v Latvii. Šamir, Riga 2006, ISBN 9984-19904-5 .
Web links
- Jewish cemeteries in Latvia - Jaunjelgava Jewish cemetery
- LATVIA - THE JEWISH COMMUNITY. In: International Jewish Cemetery Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Jewish cemeteries in Latvia - Jaunjelgava Jewish cemetery
- ^ Shamir Jewish Religious Community
- ↑ JEWISH HERITAGE EUROPE ( memento of the original dated November 24, 2010 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.
- ↑ Latvia Judaica ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2011 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.
