Kamen Jewish cemetery
The Kamen Jewish Cemetery is part of the new municipal cemetery in the city of Kamen in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located on Friedhofstrasse and is a listed building .
From 1800 to 1940 it served as a burial place for the Jewish community . It is 853 square meters. Of the once 108 graves only 19 are grave stones remain. They mostly have German inscriptions.
Josefine Nathan b. Ruhr died on May 19, 1940. Her husband Philipp Nathan was deported from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Treblinka on September 23, 1942 . Mrs. Nathan's funeral was the last in Kamen. While the tombstones of her parents Michael Ruhr and Amalie Sieger were probably destroyed, their tombstone still exists.
The tomb of the Stern family is well worth seeing. On a pedestal is an imposing grave slab with the life data of the respective deceased. Two of the five graves have no grave slab.
literature
- Hartmut Stratmann, Günter Birkmann: Jewish cemeteries in Westphalia and Lippe. dkv, the small publishing house, Düsseldorf 1987, ISBN 3-924166-15-3 .
Web links
- Came. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia.
Bork | Brambauer | Ergste | Fröndenberg | Came | Lünen | Swords | Unna | Werne | Westhofen (old) | Westhofen (new)
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '12.9 " N , 7 ° 39' 50.8" E