University of Denver Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society
Center for Judaic Studies http://www.du.edu/cjs/rmjhs/
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208-0292
(303) 871-3020
Fax: 303.871.3037
e-mail: jabrams@du.edu

http://www.jewishcolorado.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=35974 has Colorado Jewish history.  [August 2005]

University of Denver
Penrose Library, Special Collections
Ira M. Beck Memorial Jewish Archives of the Rocky Mountain Jewish Historical Society.
2199 S. University Blvd.
Denver, CO 80208
Tel. 303.556.2740
http://www.penrose.du.edu/About/collections/SpecialCollections/ImagesofPioneerJewishFamilies.cfm has photos. [August 2005]

• Red Butte Cemetery: Jewish Section has 25 sites used by the Aspen Jewish Congregation. Jan Faurer is the contact at 970-925-8245. Source: Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com UPDATE: On Cemetery Lane, 1/2 mile west of Aspen. Oldest marked burial 1874, still in use Mailing address is PO Box 13, Aspen CO 81611, for info contact Jane Stapleton -- 970-923-6313. http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/pitkin/rdbutte.htm has tombstone photos. [August 2005]

AURORA: Arapahoe County - also see Denver
http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/lasanimas/trinmason.htm has general Arapahoe County information. Aurora originally was called Fletcher until 1907. [August 2005]
Ohr Avner - Bukharim Jewish Community, 11275 East Mississippi Avenue, Aurora, CO 80012 Phone: 720-435-5906 [August 2005]

• Mt. Nebo Memorial Park: 11658 East Colfax Avenue, Aurora, CO 80010. (303-237-0573). Owned and operated by BMH Congregation, 560 S. Monaco Parkway, Denver CO 80224 (303-388-4203). Congregation BMH (Beth Ha Medrash Hagadol) (303-366-8264) has operated this cemetery continuously since 1898. Source: Ben Streltzer, Executive Director. Website of United Beth Joseph/Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Synagogue: http://www.bmh-bj.org/ that uses this cemetery. 1919 Jewish population was 11,000 according to "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States", pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; vol. 21, edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee and submitted by Alan Hirschfeld. Mount Nebo Cemetery: #01557 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net http://www.interment.net/data/us/co/arapahoe/mt_nebo.htm has a partial list of burials.
  UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/arapahoe/mtnebo.html has photo.  [August 2005]
  
  

Congregation Har HaShem http://www.congregationharhashem.org and www.harhashemschool.org [August 2005]
Kehilath Aish Kodesh, 1805 Balsam Avenue, Boulder, CO 80304. Phone: 303-443-2497 E-mail: yorabbi@comcast.net Website: http://www.boulderaishkodesh.org [August 2005]
Jewish Boulder: http://www.jewishcolorado.org/section_display.html?ID=544 [August 2005]

• Green Mountain Cemetery: 1527 Cherryvale. 303-444-5696. Congregation Har Hashem (303-499-7077) uses King David Cemetery at Green Mountain Cemetery. Orthodox, Congregation Bonai Shalom (1527 Cherryvale Road Boulder, Colorado 80303, (303-442/6605), Office Hours: 9am to 2pm, Tuesday through Friday) uses a fenced-in area of Green Mountain Cemetery, with no special name.303-444-5696. Source: Myndel Cohen : hermyn@aol.com. UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/boulder/greenmtn.htm has tombstone photos. Green Mountain Cemetery was established in 1904. Green Mountain cemetery was established in 1904. 290 20th Street, Boulder, CO. Telephone: 303-444-5695 Fax: 303-442-1500  http://www.hollyhockfarms.com/coboulder/Cemeteries/gm/default.htm has photo [August 2005]

• Evergreen Cemetery, section: Sons of Israel Cemetery: Located within Evergreen, 105 S. Hancock Ave. 719-578-6646. Sons of Israel Synagogue, 1600 E. Pikes Peak Ave was founded May 8, 1949. Cemetery has 225 burial sites. All congregations in Colorado Springs use Evergreen Cemetery. Temple Shalom coordinates all business matters of this cemetery. Contact Sol Mayer. Source: Myndel Cohen: hermyn@aol.com 

  UPDATE: Jewish Cemetery: The Colorado Springs Gazette, Wednesday, 7 June 1905; page 2: INVESTIGATING - The county commissioners visited the county road near the cemetery yesterday to investigate the complaint of M.K. Myers, to the effect that water from the county road was draining upon the Jewish Cemetery causing much damage. (http://www.gazette.com) [January 2003]

  UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/elpaso/evergreen.htm  has history and tombstone photos. Evergreen Cemetery is Colorado Spring's oldest continuously operated cemetery established shortly after the town was founded in 1871, and has been owned and operated by the city since 1876. For transcription of all burials through 1972, see http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/co/elpaso.htm. For burials, scroll down on http://www.rootsweb.com/~coelpaso/elp_co.htm to Evergreen Cemetery [August 2005]

• Rose Hill Cemetery: 6841 62nd Ave., Commerce City, CO 80022 (303-288-1414) http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/adams/rosehill.htm has photo links. [August 2005]

• Mount Pisgah Cemetery is just west of Cripple Creek. The first known burial took place in 1891.It is located just west of the city on Teller Route number 1 on the slopes of Mt. Pisgah. [August 2005]

• Emanuel Cemetery: c/o Fairmount Cemetery: 430 South Quebec St. Denver, CO 80231 (303) 399-0692; Founded 1911 and still owned by Temple Emanuel, 51 Grape St., 303-388-4013; Source: Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com. Temple Emanuel, northeast of Denver, was founded in 1896. See: Emanuel Cemetery at Fairmount #01713 and #01714 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net. UPDATE: The oldest Jewish Cemetery in Denver and located within the boundaries of Fairmount Cemetery on the corner of Alameda and Quebec, the cemetery is owned and operated by Congregation Emanuel. For information, call the Temple at 303-388-4013, 303-399-0692. Reform.

  UPDATE: http://www.congregationemanuel.com, E-mail: shalom@congregationemanuel.com. Cemetery photo and information: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/denver/fairmount.htm. http://www.rootsweb.com/~codenver/Fairmount/FairmountCem.htm has information. [August 2005]

• Fairmont Cemetery: see Emanuel Cemetery
• Rose Hill Cemetery: 6841 E. 62nd Ave., 80022 (303-288-1414). Established in 1891 as United Hebrew Cemetery Association, there are about 5,000 graves with 10,000 or 12,000 more sites. Contact Mel Weiss. Source: Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com. Rose Hill Cemetery: #01562 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net    

  UPDATE: N. David ("Dovey") Heller, Executive Director. Joe Wolf is the Jewish memorialist for Norman's Memorials, Inc.; past head of the men's "khevrah kadishah." The on-site groundskeeper/sexton is Court Monaghan, who is a very observant Orthodox Jew. Source: Joe Wolf. 303-321-2525. 888-666-WOLF. jwolfrltr@att.net [June 2003]

• United Hebrew Cemetery: #01722 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net. See Rose Hill cemetery above

Har Shalom, 2537 County Road 203, Durango, CO, P.O. Box 9199, Durango, CO 81302, Phone: 970.375.0613 E-mail: info@harshalomdurango.org. Website: http://www.harshalomdurango.org, Visiting Rabbi is Elliot Baskin. [August 2005]

Contact Mrs. Rabbi Gershon Winkler of Cuba, New Mexico, who served as Rabbi for Durango and Northern New Mexico. There is no cemetery. Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com

• Durango Greenmount Cemetery: Har Shalom congregational section is located on the far eastern part of the cemetery overlooking the river.I am responsible for the cemetery plots in our little area, separate from the rest of the cemetery with currently only one plot "in use".  We have done nothing to develop the area other than to buy contiguous plots and ask the city to allow for some room to grow contiguously. Source: Richard Brown, Secretary, Har Shalom, rlb@mail.dwcorp.com [August 2005]

• There is a nondenominational cemetery with Jewish burials. Source: Stuart Liss; sliss@liss.olm.net

• Roselawn Cemetery: Jewish section. 2718 E. Mulberry St., Fort Collins, CO 80424  for Congregation Har Shalom, 725 W. Drake Rd, Fort Collins, CO 80526; 970-223-5191. Source: Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com. Operated by the city of Fort Collins.  http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/larimer/roselawn.htm has information. A-J surname index: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/co/larimer/cemeteries/roslwnAJ.txt and K-Z surname index: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/co/larimer/cemeteries/roslwnKZ.txt"Roselawn Cemetery is located east of Fort Collins, on the north side of Highway 14. It was established in 1947 by a private association.  Roselawn consists of 26.8 acres of which 9.9 acres had been developed as of 1985. It was taken over by the City of Fort Collins in 1959 and is taken care of in conjunction with Grandview Cemetery. ... The stones in this cemetery are level with the ground. Data is through March 1985. ... The data is taken from Cemeteries of Larimer County, Colorado Volume 2 Roselawn and Resthaven Cemeteries, with permission of the Larimer County Genealogical Society." [August 2005]

• Golden Hill Cemetery: 12000 West Colfax Ave., Golden, CO 80215 (303) 237-0573 UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/jefferson/gldnhill.htm has photo, burials, and information. Surname Indexes: http://www.rootsweb.com/~cojeffer/cemetery.html and scroll down to Golden Hill Cemetery. [August 2005]
  

• Congregation Ohr Shalom Cemetery: at Canyon Road in Municipal Cemetery 400 sites were consecrated about 1994. Contact Beverly Fleischer, 970- 242-0943. Source: Myndel Cohen hermyn@aol.com. UPDATE: Congregation Ohr Shalom, 441 Kennedy Avenue. Grand Junction, CO 81501 Phone: 970-243-2491. E-mail: jamie@adventurerabbi.com Reform. http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/mesa/municipal.htm has photo and information. http://www.rootsweb.com/~comesa2/cemeteries/Municipal/Municipalcemetery.htm has information. [August 2005]
  

• Linn Grove Cemetery: (Jewish section). 1700 Cedar Ave., 80631. Fenced in area for 51 sites for Beth Israel Congregation, 970-353- 2630, Mrs. Weil. Source: Myndel Cohen, hermyn@aol.com. UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/weld/linngrove.htm has photo and information. "The Linn Grove Cemetery was established in 1874 to replace the original Greeley Cemetery. Linn Grove is located about two miles east of Greeley, just north of US 34 at 1700 Cedar Avenue, Greeley, CO 80631; phone (970) 350-9386. In 1882, most of the remains from the original cemetery were re-interred in Linn Grove."  [August 2005]
  

• Golden Hill Cemetery: 12000 W. Colfax Ave., Lakewood 80215; 237-0573; est. 1908 as Westside Benevolent Society. Part of unincorporated Jefferson County. Established in 1908 as Westside Benevolent Society, the site contains between 3500 and 4000 sites. Source: Myndel Cohen, hermyn@aol.com.
  #01717 and 01862 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net.
  See p.73 in Postal & Koppman Jewish Tourist's Guide to U.S. Phila., PA: Jewish Publ. Soc., 1954).
  http://www.ghostseekers.com/ has a searchable index of all the burials. UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/jefferson/gldnhill.htm has photo and information. [August 2005]
  

• Hebrew Cemetery: {10947} Leadville Jewish Cemetery is part of Evergreen Cemetery. Founded in 1878, the site has 132 burials. (Old Temple address: 208 W. 8th St. 80461, now a 4-family home.) Temple Israel Foundation (719-486-3625) contact: William Korn, 208 8th St Leadville 80461 at the Temple Israel Foundation. (Home address: 9171 Woodland Rd, Longmont, CO 80503.) He has a list of names of 132 known burials, with a plot map. The list has names, age at death, date died, and Block, Lot, Grave #. The data also states that there was a Temple Kneset Israel, demolished in 1937. Source: e-mail:George Cohen, gco2907@juno.com.      

  Jewish population in 1919 was 79 according to "Directory of Jewish Local Organizations in the United States", pp. 330-583. American Jewish Year Book 5680 September 25,1919 to Sept. 12, 1920; vol. 21, edited by Harry Schneiderman for the American Jewish Committee and submitted by Alan Hirschfeld.

       Source: Alison Greengard of Lakewood, CO; e-mail: agreengard@prodigy.net. Minette Miller, who died in 1981 at the age of 87, was the last person to be buried in the old Leadville Jewish Cemetery which, at over 10,000 feet, is believed by some to be the highest Jewish cemetery in the world. Cleaning and grooming of the cemetery and its the 133 graves was planned for 1999 by a volunteer force. Contacts: Ed Koplin (in Denver) (303) 394-9700; Bennett Pollack (B'nai Vail) (970) 845-8399; Jonathan Birnbaum (Synagogue of the Summit) (970) 468-1406; and Jan Faurer (Aspen Jewish Congregation) (970) 923-3323. Those with any information on them or their families are encouraged to contact Ed Koplin at (303) 394-9700. He is gathering personal histories of the Leadville Jewish community.

  UPDATE: http://www.jewishleadville.org/cemeterynames.html has burial list. "...Hebrew Cemetery came to serve as the resting place for some 130 souls (now 132), including the last "old time" Jewish Leadville native-Minette Miller (born 1894, died 1981).  Only 59 original markers remain and the locations of 12 people have been lost.  This is the sad result of a long period of neglect which ended only in the late 1980s..." Source: http://www.jewishleadville.org/cemeteryhistory.html has cemetery history and restoration history.[August 2005]

  http://www.jewishleadville.org/surnames/monheimer.html has history about Leadville Jews and http://www.jewishleadville.org/cemeteryhistory.html has photo and history of the cemetery. [August 2005] "As Leadville grew explosively during the late 1870s it quickly realized and satisfied a need for ample interment acreage.  The Jewish community first required space with the passing of Gustave "Fred" Jelenko during June of 1879.  He was settled into the southwest corner of the newly established Evergreen Cemetery by the following January, 1880, (he may first have been buried in and then moved from Kokomo on nearby Fremont Pass) at which time title to about 101,000 square feet of that southwest corner had been transferred to the Hebrew Benevolent Association to hold the mortal remains of the pioneer Jews of Leadville. Only 59 original markers remain and the locations of 12 people have been lost. This is the sad result of a long period of neglect which ended only in the late 1980s with the creation of the Temple Israel Foundation  http://www.jewishleadville.org/foundationinformation.html and its subsequent acquisition of the cemetery through a quiet title action during June, 1993. Since taking control of the cemetery grounds very significant volunteer efforts, led by the Denver chapter of B'nai B'rith, have cleared much of the site from heavy overgrowth, constructed an encircling fence, contributed an entry arch and a monument, and culminated in the reconsecration of the cemetery in August, 1999.  The replacement of missing markers was completed in 2004.  The cemetery experienced its most recent interment during December, 2001, in an area devoted to renewed demand.  Current endeavors include a computer mapping of cemetery (beware: long download) the continuation of annual volunteer cleanups every August." http://www.jewishleadville.org/familyhomepage.html has family list and links. http://www.jewishleadville.org/census.html has Jewish census 1930 [August 2005]

• Evergreen Cemetery: See Hebrew Cemetery
  

• B'nai Jacob Cemetery (section of Roselawn Cemetery): 23rd & Montague Streets, under the auspices of United Hebrew Center, 106 W. 15th St., Pueblo, 81003 719-544-9897. Source: Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com.
  #02040 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3; Source: Al Rosenfield, Columbus OH; arosen@ee.net.
          UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/pueblo/roselawn.htm has photo and information. [August 2005]

• Municipal Cemetery: Louise Lucas of Har Mishpachat says there is no Jewish cemetery and that there are fewer than ten Jewish burials, perhaps one or two, in the Municipal Cemetery in the Steamboat area and Routt County. 970-878-3878. Source: Myndel Cohen; hermyn@aol.com
          UPDATE: http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/routt/steamboat.htm has photo and information. The Steamboat Springs Cemetery on the west edge of town has a small sign on the north side of US Highway 40 directing you up the side road to the cemetery. Best seen when traveling westbound on Highway 40, the sign in the cemetery notes Colorado Historical Site #5RT791.[August 2005]

• Tin Cup Cemetery: 1/2 mile south of Tin Cup. The two graves in evidence on the Jewish knoll are unmarked by names or other identifying information. This knoll is west of the Catholic knoll. The Jewish Knoll is now marked by a (new) sign (as are the other knolls). Forks of a mountain stream separate the knolls. Wooden footbridges cross from one to the other. The high ranges of the Rocky Mountains make a dramatic background. The cemetery is perhaps a half-mile up hill from the town. Further, a mile or two over 4WD path, is one of the now-defunct major mines of the last century. In I Remember Tin Cup, a 1986 local history by Eleanor Perry, the author writes: "...When I first visited the cemetery in 1952, three wooden headboards on the Jewish Knoll had rotted at their bases but were still at the grave sites with no sign of other burials. The names and dates were legible and indicated that three infants of one family were buried there. The three headboards have since disappeared." Source: Neal Ulevich; e-mail: nulevich@csn.net
          UPDATE: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/co/gunnison/cemeteries/tin_cup.txt has burial list of three Harris children and two Klauber children. [August 2005]
  

• Masonic Cemetery: Congregation Aaron Cemetery: 150+ burials. Temple Aaron, 309 S. Maple St., 81082, 719-846-2781. Source: Myndel Cohen: hermyn@aol.com. The Trinidad Historical Society (Loretta Martin, Museum Director, Trinidad State Junior College, Trinidad, CO 81082 compiled a list of graves on a database (EXCEL). () AJA: American Jewish Archives, 3101 Clifton Ave. Cincinnati, Ohio 45220-2488. 513-221-1875 (tel) 513-221-7812 (fax).
  AJA@cn.huc.edu has Temple Aaron circumcision records of Rabbi Leopold Freudenthal, n.d.; and cemetery records, 1874-1965. Microfilm No. 2594. Aunt of Casper Weinberger is buried there. / Temple Aaron Cemetery: #01925 in Cemeteries of the US. Deborah M. Burek, ed. Gale Research Int., Detroit MI (1994) ISBN 0-8103-9245-3. Source: Al Rosenfield, arosen@ee.net. Congregation founded 1883. http://www.sharonniederman.com/temple.html. http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/co/costones/lasanimas/trinmason.htm has information. http://www.freewebs.com/tdadmascem// has burial list. [August 2005]