Velbert Cemetery
"Records suggest that the town’s Jewish cemetery was already in use in 1840, and we know for certain that it was desecrated in 1894, around which time Jews attending a funeral there were assaulted...The cemetery was sold in 1950, after which 50 gravestones were used in the construction of a barracks used to house POWs."
Ruth Martina Trucks
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com
Notes
The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust, Shmuel Spector [Ed.], [publisher] Yad Vashem and the New York University Press, 2001., Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999., Synagogen Internet Archiv, www.synagogen.info
Details
| Date Added | Feb 17, 2020 |
|---|---|
| Category | Cemetery |
| Country | DE |
| State | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| City | Velbert |
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