• British Commonwealth Cemetery: Remains of soldiers of World War II Jewish Brigade. Source: World Jewish Congress' Dateline, December 1998.

• Jewish Cemetery: {10682} at 8 Simmious St. Jewish cemetery is the middle of three cemeteries.Names from the stones displayed at the web site are excerpted below. The numbers refer to the year of burial. Beyond the triple-arched entrance gate are rows of neat white crypts with inscriptions dating back many centuries. A marble monument identifies the 2,000 Jews of Rhodes and Kos killed by the Nazis. For more information, contact Lucia Soulam (Sofocleous 6E, Rhodes Greece 85100) or Morris Soriano (Odos Cos 3, Rhodes, Greece). Lucia is a survivor of Auschwitz. Both Lucia and Morris are elderly but Lucia is the caretaker of the Kal De Shalom Synagogue in Rhodes. She speaks Judeo-Spanish (Ladino), Italian, Greek and a little French and Turkish. Morris speaks Ladino, French, Turkish and Greek. Both speak very little English. Source: Arthur Benveniste e-mail: benven@earthlink.net.
  

  A listing of the 1,167 tombstones in the Jewish cemetery of Rhodes, including the plot locations exists but does not include the over 200 newly discovered tombstones which date from the 1500's to the 1840's.) The Rhodes Jewish Museum and the non-profit Rhodes Jewish Historical Foundation, founded by Aron Hasson, can be contacted at info@RhodesJewishMuseum.org.

  Images and translations of a few of the 17th-19th century tombstones are available on their website at http://www.rhodesjewishmuseum.org/plots.htm [February 2002]

  News and photos of the Cemetery Restoration Project are at http://www.RhodesJewishMuseum.Org/news.htm . [2000]

Kal Shalom, a Sephardic Synagogue survived the Nazis on the Isle of Rhodes. On the wall of the Synagogue is a memorial plaque with the names of the families lost when the Nazis deported the Jewish community to Auschwitz. Here is the entire text of the plaque: "EN MEMOIRE DES DEUX MILLE MARTYRS DE LA COMMUNAUTE JUIVE DE RHODES ET COS BRUTALEMENT ANEANTIS PAR LES MEURTRIERS NAZIS DANS LES CAMPS DE CONCENTRATION EN ALLEMAGNE 1944-1945 QUE LEUR ANE REPOSE EN PAIX." Translation: Of the two thousand martyrs of the Jewish community of Rhodes and Cos Brutally annihilated by the murderous Nazis in the Concentration Camps in Germany 1944-1945 May their soul(s) rest in peace. (Names follow here) {10108}. "A LA MEMOIRE DE MON PERE ASCHER MA MERE SAROTA, MON FRERE JACQUES ET MA SOEUR FLORE AVEC SON MARI M. LEVI TOUS DEUX DEPORTES YEDID CHARHON 1969." Translation: "To the memory of my father Ascher my mother Sarota, my brother Jacques (James, Jacob) and my sister Flore (Flora) with her husband Mr. Levi both deported Yedid Charmon 1969". Translation Source: Richard William Miller on JewishGen Digest. [1998

UPDATE: "The Jewish Traveler" by Esther Hecht, found in the August-September 2002 issue of Hadassah Magazine archived at http://www.hadassah.com/frame2.asp?section=news&page=per.html&header=per&size=50, has information about Rhodes and mentions Carmen Cohen, Community Secretary, who has genealogical archival information. She speaks English. The article notes that the Jewish cemetery is located between the Christian and Muslim cemeteries on the road to Faliraki on the southeastern edge of the city. One section lacks gravestones because "The families did not manage to have a stone prepared before they were deported." Also fact is the fact that a number of stones include "carvings of scissors, a reminder that Rhodeslis were textile dealers and tailors." Source: mbookstaff@yahoo.com [September 2002]