The Jewish cemetery Ohlsdorf (german: Jüdischer Friedhof Ohlsdorf or ') also known as Ilandkoppel Jewish Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in the Ohlsdorf district of

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. It is the only operating Jewish cemetery in Hamburg and still used for burials according to the Jewish ritual and tradition. It is adjacent to the large non-denominational

Ohlsdorf Cemetery Ohlsdorf Cemetery (german: Ohlsdorfer Friedhof or (former) ) in the Ohlsdorf quarter of the city of Hamburg, Germany, is the biggest rural cemetery in the world and the fourth-largest cemetery in the world. Most of the people buried at the cemete ...

where more than 1.5 million people are buried.

History and description

The Jewish Cemetery in Ohlsdorf was opened on 30 September 1883. The burial ground of the

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are rather special because of the remarkable and striking architectural elements. The Jews who had been expelled from

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and

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around 1490 took their burial tradition along with them when immigrating to Hamburg: tombs, grave stones laying flat on the ground and stones in a sarcophagic style. In June 1937, the Jewish cemetery at the Grindelquarter was completely destroyed by the Nazis. Under the conduct of chief rabbi Dr. Carlebach, only 200 stones could be transferred to Ohlsdorf and about 175 gravestones from the cemetery Ottensen in 1939 and 1941. Male visitors are requested to wear a head covering. Kippahs can be borrowed from the green box at the entrance gate and should be replaced when leaving the cemetery.

Memorials for the victims of Nazism

A memorial for the victims of

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opposite the ceremony hall commemorates the 190,000 German and over 5 million murdered European Jews. A single detached urn contains soil and ash from the Auschwitz concentration camp. The memorial wall behind shows the Star of David, dates and a quote from

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8:23 "...that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people"

Selected notable burials

A few of the notables buried here are: *

Isaac Bernays Isaac Bernays ( , , ; 29 September 1792 – 1 May 1849) was Chief Rabbi in Hamburg. Life Bernays was born in Weisenau (now part of Mainz). He was the son of Jacob Gera, a boarding house keeper at Mainz, and an elder brother of Adolphus Bernays. ...

(1792-1849), Chief

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* Georg Hartog Gerson (1788-1844), Medical doctor and surgeon in the King's German Legion during the

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Gabriel Riesser Gabriel Riesser (2 April 1806 – 22 April 1863) was a German politician and lawyer. Life Both of Riesser's grandfathers were rabbis; his paternal grandfather was Jakob Pinchas Katzenellenbogen, rabbi in Lemberg and later Oettingen, and hi ...

(1806–1863), Jewish

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politician and lawyer

Gallery

File:Grindelfriedhof.jpg, File:Hamburg_juedischer_Friedhof_Ohlsdorf.jpg, File:Hamburg_jued_Friedhof_Ohlsdorf.jpg, File:Hamburg_Portugiesengraeber_Ohlsdorf.jpg, File:Grabmal Gabriel Riesser auf dem jüdischen Friedhof in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf.jpg, File:Grabplatte Lazarus Gumpel auf dem jüdischen Friedhof in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf.jpg, File:Grabmal Dellevie - Totale.jpg, department Grindel cemetery / gravestone of the Jeweller family Dellevie File:Grindelfriedhof Heilbut+Warburg.jpg, department Grindel cemetery / Moritz Samuel Heilbut and family Warburg

Source and references

*http://www.jfhh.org/index_e.html

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