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Jewish Cemetery Harpstedt

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    Location: Harpstedt, Landkreis Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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    June 2, 2020

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    West of Harpstedt in 1907 the Jew Iwan Goldschmidt acquired a plot of land of about 600 square meters. A total of eight funerals took place here between 1910 and 1937.

    During the Second World War, four Eastern European forced laborers were buried in the cemetery. They are two Polish, one Yugoslav and one Russian citizen.

    The cemetery was privately owned until 1979 and was then acquired by the State Association of Jewish Communities in Hanover and underwent extensive repairs. A considered transfer of the non-Jewish war dead was rejected for legal and religious reasons.
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    June 21, 2020

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    The cemetery is very small, maybe 10x80m. There are about 10 tombstones and a memorial stone for 3 families who died in concentration camps. A detour is worthwhile.
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    August 15, 2018

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    Only 50 meters off the bike path is the Jewish cemetery Harpstedt.
    At the entrance is a bronze commemorative plaque. This is the record of the Harpstedt Jews who became …
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