Herdecke Jewish cemetery
The Herdecke Jewish cemetery is located in the town of Herdecke in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Jewish cemetery on Zeppelinstrasse in the southeastern part of the municipal cemetery was probably occupied from 1895 to 1938. 16 tombstones have been preserved. There are also 23 graves of Russian forced laborers from the time of World War II in the cemetery .
Old Jewish Cemetery
There are no more gravestones in the old Jewish cemetery between Ladestrasse and Bahnhofstrasse (Wienberg cemetery), which was occupied in the 19th century until 1895. In 2014 a memorial plaque was erected there in memory of the Jewish citizens persecuted and murdered in the Third Reich .
Web links
- Herdecke on uni-heidelberg.de. In: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl.
- Herdecke Jewish cemetery on the website of the Herdecker Heimat- und Verkehrsverein eV
- Jewish World War Victims have not been forgotten in Herdecke by Klaus Görzel on September 22, 2014 at wp.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
- Memorial Day. Herdecke connects with Hanna Voss's Jewish victims on November 16, 2014 at wp.de, accessed on May 3, 2019
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