Jewish cemetery Havelberg

Plaque at the entrance to the Jewish cemetery

Grave site of the Jacoby family, including the engraver Louis Jacoby .

Stumbling block for William Jacoby in Berlin-Zehlendorf

The Jewish cemetery Havelberg is the cemetery of the Jewish community in the city of Havelberg in Saxony-Anhalt . The cemetery is located northeast of the city in a wood on the way to the Havelberg district of Müggenbusch. The site of the city's cemetery was only acquired by the city in 1894 and made available to the Jewish community. The oldest tombstone, however, dates back to 1842.

Among other things, the copper engraver Louis Jacoby , who was born in Havelberg and a member of one of the city's most famous Jewish families, is buried in the cemetery. He died in Berlin, but had expressed the wish to be buried in Havelberg. The youngest gravestone in the cemetery commemorates William Jacoby, who died in 1943 in Theresienstadt concentration camp .

Web links

Commons : Jüdischer Friedhof Havelberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Havelberg (SDL) . In: Jewish cemeteries in Saxony-Anhalt. Part 2: Places G – K. (Alemannia Judaica)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gerald Christopeit: From the history of the Jewish community in Havelberg. In: Stadt Havelberg (Ed.): Havelberg. Small city with a great past. mdv - Mitteldeutscher Verlag GmbH, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-932776-11-9 , pp. 158–164, here p. 163.
2. ^ Havelberg (SDL) . In: Jewish cemeteries in Saxony-Anhalt. Part 2: Places G – K. (Alemannia Judaica), accessed January 4, 2013.

Coordinates: 52 ° 50 ′ 5.6 "  N , 12 ° 5 ′ 51.2"  E