La Boisse Jewish cemetery
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 La Boisse Jewish Memorial (Mémorial juif de La Boisse - לִקְדוֹשִׁים אֲשֶׁר-בָּאָרֶץ הֵמָּה) |
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| Country: | France |
| Region: | Ain |
| Place: | La Boisse |
| Inauguration: | 1970 |
The La Boisse Jewish Cemetery ( French Cimetière juif de La Boisse ) is a cemetery . It is also a memorial in honor of the victims who were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and murdered. The memorial is located in La Boisse (near the border with Niévroz ) in the Ain department in France .
The memorial
The memorial is dedicated
"Aux saints qui sont sur la terre"
"The holy ones on earth"
like it in Hebrew לִקְדוֹשִׁים אֲשֶׁר-בָּאָרֶץ הֵמָּהis written on the front gable of the memorial. This is a direct reference to Psalm 16 , verse 3 in the Bible , here in Hebrew.
The memorial is also called Mémorial Jacques-Dreyfus in memory of Jacques Dreyfus (1915–1980), the president of the Rhône-Alpes Association (président du consistoire Rhône-Alpes).
Plaque in the La Boisse Jewish memorial in memory of Jacques Dreyfus.
Front gable of the La Boisse Jewish Memorial.
The urn in the Jewish memorial La Boisse with soil and ashes from the Birkenau extermination camp.
In memory of the victims of Auschwitz-Birkenau
The plaque at the entrance to the memorial reads in French:
Terre et cendres du camp d'extermination de
Birkenau ou plus de 1,300,000 hommes,
femmes, enfants parmi les 6,000,000
de victimes de la Shoah , ont été
assassinés par les nazis et leurs complices,
parce que nés Juifs.
1939 - 1945
Notre mémoire est leur seule sépulture.
“Earth and ashes from the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp , in which more than 1,300,000 men, women and children of the 6,000,000 victims of the Holocaust (Shoah) were murdered by the National Socialists and their helpers because they were born Jews .
1939 - 1945
Our memory is her only grave. "
(The Hebrew text means in English: don't forget .)
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Aux saints qui sont dans la terre. In: sefarim.fr. Retrieved May 10, 2011 (French, Hebrew).
- ↑ In French Judaism , a consistoire is an institution that was founded under Napoleon Bonaparte and was commissioned to organize the Jewish religion in a region, like the most important one today, the ACIP or Association Consistoriale Israélite de Paris. The regional consistoires are brought together in the Consistoire central israélite of France.
Coordinates: 45 ° 50 ′ 14.8 " N , 5 ° 3 ′ 34.4" E