New Jewish Cemetery (Česká Lípa)
Coordinates: 50 ° 41'27.8 " N , 14 ° 32'5.6" E
The New Jewish Cemetery in Česká Lípa (German: Böhmisch Leipa) in the Czech Republic is one of two Jewish cemeteries in the city: the Old Jewish Cemetery was closed in 1905 with the construction of the New Jewish Cemetery, which no longer exists today.
history
Considerations for the construction of a new cemetery were made as early as 1899, but the official acceptance of the cemetery did not take place until November 1905 after some delays. It is located near the municipal cemetery. The cemetery was in use until the outbreak of the Second World War, after which funerals took place again, the last in 1962. In 1983 the cemetery was cleared and a school was built on the cemetery grounds.
17 Jewish prisoners who were on the death march from the Schwarzheide subcamp in Brandenburg, originally destined for Theresienstadt concentration camp, were buried in the cemetery . Some of the prisoners were brought to Česká Lípa in railway wagons, where after two days on May 7, 1945, 17 prisoners were found who had died . They were transported to the southern municipality of Sosnová , where they were buried in a forest. They were later transferred back to Česká Lípa, where they were buried on October 10, 1945 in the New Jewish Cemetery. With the dissolution of the cemetery, these graves also disappeared. At Sosnová as well as on the site of today's school in Česká Lípa, memorial plaques were later placed.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Česká Lípa , online at: www2.holocaust.cz / ... ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Hřbitov , online at: www.bohmischleipa.cz / ...
- ↑ Zapomenuté příběhy - pochod Schwarzheide , report on the Schwarzheide death march, in: Městské noviny (city newspaper) of May 9, 2010, Česká Lípa, p. 6, online at www.mucl.cz / ... ( Memento from December 31 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Pochod Schwarzheide (Marsch Schwarzheide), online at: www.muzeumcl.cz / ...
