Jewish cemetery in Heerstrasse

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The Jewish cemetery

The Jewish cemetery Heerstraße in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is located in the northern area of ​​the Grunewald forest at Heerstraße 141.

The geometrically designed cemetery was planned by Hermann Guttmann and Bernhard Kynast after the division of the Jewish community into an Eastern and a Western community in the early 1950s and was inaugurated in November 1955. Curt Leschnitzer designed the chapel and the administration building, which with two gates form a small courtyard. In 1966 and 1979 the cemetery was expanded.

The memorial for the Jewish victims of the Nazi regime was built in 1960 by Josef M. Lellek using stones from the destroyed synagogue on Fasanenstrasse . The 2 m × 1 m × 1 m memorial stone resembles a sarcophagus and shows a Star of David. It bears the inscription: " To those who had to give their lives under the rule of the monster for eternal memory 1933–1945 ". In 1984, an urn with ashes from victims from the Auschwitz concentration camp was buried in front of the memorial. Around the memorial stone there are small red grave slabs that survivors of the Holocaust had erected for their loved ones who had died.

Five old gravestones to the right and left of the Mittelweg are finds from the Jewish cemetery in Spandau, which was closed in the 15th century, the Jewish Kievan .

After two attacks on the cemetery in September and December 1998, in which the stone on the grave of Heinz Galinski was almost completely destroyed, another bomb attack occurred on the cemetery on March 16, 2002. In all cases, the culprit has not yet been determined.

Graves

The following graves are cared for as honorary graves of the State of Berlin:

Other well-known personalities

See also

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heerstrasse - Jewish community in Berlin. In: jg-berlin.org. Retrieved August 17, 2016 .
  2. ^ Attack on Heinz Galinski's tomb. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 29, 1998 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
  3. ^ Jewish community calls for more protection for the cemetery after the attack In: Berliner Zeitung. March 18, 2002 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).

Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 19 ″  N , 13 ° 13 ′ 22 ″  E