Sociedade Genealogica Judaica do Brasil
Dr. Guilherme Faiguenboim, Caixa Postal 1025
13001-970 Campinas SP, BRAZIL
Telephone: (5511) 881-9365 (Ms. Anna Rosa)
E-mail: faiguen@attglobal.net

(CONIB) Confederacao Israelita do Brasil
Avenida Nilo Pecanha, 50-Gr. 1601
20020-100 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tel. 55 21 240 0034, Fax 55 21 240 2717.
The synagogue president's name is Dr. Alberto Nasser. [October 2000]

Arquivo Historico Judaico Brasileiro
Rua Severino [Note: Address may be incorrect]
Sao Paulo

• Cemiterio Israelita: Avenida Isabel Bueno, Bairro Jaragua [or Jaguaribe], State: Minas Gerais. Try to contact the Associação Israelita in Belo Horizonte to obtain the information. ASSOCIAÇÀO ISRAELITA BRASILEIRA, (President: Mr. Geber), Rua Rio Grande do Norte 477, 30.130-130, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. Phone: 224.2129. Source: Professor Álvaro Falcão, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10325}

• Espinosa: {10326}

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10335}

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10324}

• Sepulturas III - As Mishpakot de Belem (no.16):
  
• Antigo de Belem: {10286}
  
• Cemiterio Ave Soledade: {10289}
  
• Cemiterio Novo: {10288}
  
• Jardim da Escola Kennedy: {10287} (also listed in other book below)

• Sepulturas de Israelitas (no.2): Sepulturas de Israelitas II - Uma pesquisa am mais de 30 cemiterios nao israelitas (no.5) see below -35 cemeteries. The book includes general description, obituaries, pictures, alphabetic index in back, as well as a notation of sources used for each name.

• Cemiterio de Rosario: {10332}

• Cemiterio de Marni: {10331}
• Cemiterio de Saco de Sao Franciso: {10333}

• Cemiterio de Comunidade Evangelica Luterna: {10355}
• Cemiterio de Sao Joao Batista: {10356}

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10357}

• Cemiterio dos Ingleses:
• Cemiterio de Sao Francisco Xavier:
• Cemiterio de Sao Joao Batista:
• Cemiterio de Jardim da Saudade:
• Cemiterio comunal Israelita de Vila Rosali: Source: Mario Pineles; e-mail:
• mukunda@iis.com Cemiterio Israelita do Caju: Source: Mario Pineles; e-mail: mukunda@iis.com

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10349}

• Villar dos Telles: new cemetery in the town of the same name. Source: Silvia Levy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. sillevy@amcham.com.br This cemetery actually is used by many residents of the city of Rio de Janeiro because it is a lot less expensive than Cemeterio do Caju and Vila Rosali, the two most often used. Sandra Lilienthal Lilifam@aol.com

• Cemeterio do Centro Israelita:
• Cemeterio da Uniao Israelita:

• Cemiterio Israelita de Quarto Irmaos: {10964} The cemetery is actually in a rural area with the large town, Erechim, at 27º38 S 52º17. Quatro Irmaos was one of the Baron Hirsh colonies founded at the beginning of the century, as were other colonies in this area of southern Brazil. Another colony was the now vanished colony of Philipson (near Santa Maria.) Possibly a cemetery is there or not. Baron Hirsh and Baronesa Clara (Chale), which are near Quatro Irmaos, also used this cemetery. The company in charge of the Colonization, Jewish Association Colonization (ICA) had a management office there in Quatro Irmaos. My father was the Superintendent of the company for many years and actually the last person to work for them. He closed the books about 1960. The colonies were a great success from a local point of view.
       Quatro Irmaos was quite a big community with hospital and doctors, school, cinema, and running water and electricity in many houses. Built like a Polish-Bessarabian shtetl, the main language was Yiddish. About 1950-55, as there was no high school, many young people left for big cities. Slowly, the community disappeared. Today, nothing is left, not even one Jewish family. There are some big Jewish farms, but the owners live in Erechim, the nearest city, probably no more than 50-60 Jewish families, mostly with mixed marriages. As a matter of fact, we were one of the last families to move Quatro Irmaos because my father had to close all the ICA properties. The synagogue moved to Erechim, as well as all Jewish things like books from the school, etc. Porto Alegre, the district capital, is about 300-400 km from Erechim (about one hour from Quatro Irmaos). Only a few people arrive in the days before Yom Kippur. Mostly, they count on the Erechim Jewish community to take care of the cemetery, which the new generation does not do. It is too far from their memory and too close to their houses for them to understand the importance of the place in the Jewish history in Brazil.
       My parents, Samuel and Zivia (nee Nagelstein) Chwartzmann, Rua Mariante 350/701, Porto Alegre, RS Brazil; phone+ 55-51-332 1846 or the Erechim Jewish Community or Jaime Jochelavicius in Erechim might be able to supply information in Portuguese. A few years ago, my father made a map of the cemetery as it is completely abandoned. He listed the names and dates of the people buried there.
       The Jewish community of Erechim has the key. The cemetery was established about 1913-14 by the Orthodox community and is no longer used. The cemetery is isolated on a hillside at the crown of a hill, reached by crossing private property. A continuous masonry wall and a gate that locks surround it. The Jewish community in Erechim has the key. The site is 1500 square meters in size, with 150 to 500 marble or granite tombstones, about 25 to 50% of which are broken. Some of the tombstones have portraits. They are inscribed in Hebrew. The site rarely is visited. The local Jewish congregation of Erechim has done some restoration and upkeep. Vegetation overgrowth in the cemetery is a constant problem.
       Portuguese contact: Henrique Chartzmann, Av. Iguacu 485/304 90.470-430 Porto Alegre, RS. Brazil; phone +55-51-3383337. substrat@nutecnet.com.br and silual@nutecnet.com.br .
       English contact: Marlei Bello, 3 Ephraim St. Kiriat Bialik, 27.000, Israel +972-4-8731090/8701523. Marlei@marine.co.il or Tomli@netvision.net.il . Source: Marlei Belo: Marlei@marine.co.il [31 August 1999]

• Cemiterio da Saudade: {10343}

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10334}

• Cemiterio de Santo Amaro ; Municipal: {10323}

• Butanan: Butantan is quite far, about 40-50 minutes by car (in light traffic) or about kilometer 20 by the Raposo Tavares Road. The Chevra Kadisha keeps this modern cemetery very nicely. Tombstones are usually small, a bit like in the garden cemeteries of the US. A wonderful Shoah memorial is there. Record of graves is now kept on a computer system. Butantan has an electronic touch screen stand that allows online consultation and printing of data. Butantan has two tahara houses and one "deathwatch" with three cold chambers. Also, there is synagogue for about 150 people where keriyah ceremonies are held. As Butantan is getting full, the community currently is building a third cemetery in the Embu district, still further (35 km) on the Curitiba road (BR 118 to be inaugurated within one year. [1999?]
• Cubatão Cementery: district of Santos, São Paulo, closed. Source: Silvia Levy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. sillevy@amcham.com.br
• Vila Mariana: Only those who acquired a plot many years ago now use the Vila Mariana cemetery. Basically, it is full. Graves date from the early 1910s up to the 1960s when Butantan was built. Before the 1910s, Jews had no cemetery so they were interred in Catholic graveyards. The Consolacao district cemetery (downtown) still has many such graves. The Vila Mariana cemetery is not very far from downtown, about 20 minutes drive. Source of Butanan and Vila Mariana: Tom Venetianer. Sao Paulo - Brazil: tom.vene@uol.com.br

• Cemiterio de Araca: {10341}      
• Cemiterio de Congonhas:      
• Cemiterio de Consolacao: {10358}      
• Cemiterio de Protestantes: {10359}      
• Cemiterio Redentor: {10360}      
• Cemiterio Sao Paulo: {10342}

• Cemiterio Municipal de Socorro: {10327}

• Jardim da Escola Kennedy: {10287} (same as above) more stones that are illegible.
       Wolff, Frieda (Av. Osvaldo Cruz 95/1301, 22250 - 060 Rio de Janeiro, RJ Brazil): Sepultura de Israelitas , University Sao Paulo, Centro de Estudos Judaicos, Mo. 3, 1976 is at Leo Baeck Institute in NY (ID # GT 3233 R5 W6). Book contains inscriptions of Jewish tombstones in non-Jewish cemeteries (1976), one Jewish cemetery (1987), one cemetery in Belem do Para (1987) and inscriptions of tombstones of the Jewish sections in the cities of Natal and Campos where those sections are part of the municipal cemetery.

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10336}

• Cemiterio Israelita I: Av. Agua Verde Cemetery: Located next to the Agua Verde Cemetery, it is closed for visitation and is maintained by the local community. Source: Fabio Werlang. fdw@bsi.com.br [October 2003]
• Cemiterio Israelita II: Santa Candida district is still active. Source: Fabio Werlang. fdw@bsi.com.br [October 2003]

• Cemiterio de Senhor da Boa Sentenca: {10339}

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10346}

• Cemiterio de Piedade: {10337}

• Cemiterio Municipal: {10345}

• Cemiterio Britanico: {10344}
• Cemiterio de Santo Amaro: {10338}
• Cemitério Israelita:

• Cemitério Israelita: Source: Walter Baptista: baptista@batista.org.br

• Cemiterio Sao Jose: {10340}