Jewish cemetery (Ljubawitschi)

Gravestones in the Lubavitch cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Ljubawitschi is a Jewish cemetery in Ljubawitschi (German Lubawitsch ), a Russian village in the Rudnjanski rajon (Smolensk) near Smolensk .

Graves of founders of the Chabad dynasty

During World War II , on November 4, 1941, 483 Jews were murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators, some of whom found their final resting place in this cemetery. There is a memorial on the site of the cemetery that commemorates the place where the Jews of Lubavitchi were shot. The village of Lyubawitschi is primarily known worldwide as the namesake and original seat of the Chabad dynasty within Hasidic Judaism. The graves of important rabbis from the founding phase , such as that of Menachem Mendel Schneersohn , are in the cemetery. The grave stones are sometimes very well preserved.

literature

• Ilja Altman : victim of hatred. The Holocaust in the USSR 1941–1945 . Muster-Schmidt Verlag, Göttingen u. Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-7881-2032-0 .

Web links

Commons : Jewish Cemetery (Ljubawitschi)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilja Altman: Zertvy nenavisti. Cholokost v SSSR 1941-1945 . Moscow 2002, p. 59.
2. ↑ Overview of memorials on gedenkstaetten-uebersicht.de, accessed December 30, 2013

Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 1.2 ″  N , 30 ° 57 ′ 25.4 ″  E