Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery, Hong Kong is the main Jewish cemetery in Happy Valley, Hong Kong. The cemetery is located on Shan Kwong Road and is managed by Jones Lang Lasalle Management Services.

History

The burial ground was opened in 1855 by

Reuben David Sassoon Reuben David Sassoon, MVO (1835–1905) was an English businessman. Biography Early life Reuben David Sassoon was born in 1835 in Baghdad. His father was David Sassoon (1792–1864), a Jewish trader of opium and cotton in China who served ...

on former farmland acquired by his father David Sassoon of the Anglo-Jewish

Sassoon family The Sassoon family were a wealthy Baghdadi Jews, Baghdadi Jews, Jewish family dynasty, associated with finance, banking, capital markets, the exploration of oil and gas, Judaism, British Conservative Party, Conservative politics, opium trade wit ...

from the British Crown to serve the Jewish community in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

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/ref> Additional land was acquired in 1904 for space for a chapel and other buildings.

Burial

There are over 300 graves including those of the

Kadoorie family The Kadoorie family or "Khedouri" (, , ) are a wealthy Hong Kong–based family, originally Jews from Baghdad, Iraq. From the mid-18th century they were established in Mumbai (then known as Bombay), becoming one of the wealthiest families in Asia ...

. The first burial took place in 1857. Also this cemetery are two war graves of

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

and one non-war service grave which are maintained by the

Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations mil ...

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History

Burial

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