Jewish cemetery (Walsrode)
The Jewish cemetery Walsrode is a Jewish cemetery in Walsrode in the Heidekreis district in Lower Saxony . The cemetery complex is classified as a cultural monument.
description
The cemetery, surrounded by a wall of red bricks, is located south of the center of Walsrode on the corner of Hannoversche Strasse and Beim Vorwerk. The 56 Jewish gravestones in the cemetery represent Jewish citizens from Walsrode and the surrounding area. They died in the years 1783 (according to other information: 1805) to 1938.
A bronze memorial and information plaque attached to the outside of the wall bears the following text:
In memory
of our
fellow citizens who were persecuted, expelled and murdered between 1933 and 1945 .
The past should not be forgotten.
Forgetting leads to imprisonment.
Remembering is the secret of liberation
November 10th, 1988
Councilor and citizen of
the city of Walsrode
including 4 lines in Hebrew repeating the last lines (without the date).
literature
- Stephan Heinemann : Jewish life in the north-east Lower Saxony small towns of Walsrode and Uelzen. Walsrode 2001 (series of publications by the Association of Friends of the Heidemuseum Walsrode eV); ISBN 3-9803242-6-5 .
- Stephan Heinemann: Walsrode. In: 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 , pp. 1528-1533.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 23.3 " N , 9 ° 35 ′ 43.9" E