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Jewish Cemetery Darmstadt

Jewish Cemetery Darmstadt

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Jewish Cemetery Darmstadt

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Location: Hesse, Germany

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November 26, 2023

The Jewish Cemetery in Darmstadt (corner of Martinstrasse and Steinbergweg in Bessungen) is one of the few remaining Jewish cemeteries in Germany. It was created in 1680 and expanded several times. The sovereigns were reluctant to see Jewish cemeteries in the residential cities, so these were regularly located in suburbs that have long since been incorporated, for example in Bettenhausen for the Jews in Kassel and in Bessungen for the Jews in Darmstadt. In the cemetery there are graves of Darmstadt Jews who were murdered in concentration camps, but also of Jewish citizens who were victims of police terror in Darmstadt from 1933 to 1945, such as Aron and Johanna Reinhardt and Anna Saalwächter, who was shortly before being transported to the concentration camp Theresienstadt chose suicide.

It is thanks to the long-time cemetery caretaker Robert Oskar Werling (1889-1969) that the cemetery escaped desecration and destruction during the Nazi era.

On July 17, 1978, 36 gravestones and pedestals were toppled by unknown persons. Since then there have been repeated desecrations of graves.

In the cemetery there is a memorial for the Darmstadt Jews who "fell" in the First World War.

Since March 8, 1959, two bronze plaques on the cemetery portal have commemorated the victims of the Nazi regime.
Source: dfg-vk-darmstadt.de/Lexikon_Auflage_2/Friedhoefe.htm

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Veronika 2020

November 26, 2023

The Jewish cemetery in the Hessian city of Darmstadt was built around 1680 in the Bessung district. The Jewish cemetery, which was not destroyed during the National Socialist era, is one of the most important surviving facilities of its kind in Germany. (Wikipedia)

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Jewish Cemetery Darmstadt

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