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CADENBERGE: 21781 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CALBE: 39240 Saxony-Anhalt
Str. des DSF 15. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CALDEN MEIMBRESSEN: 34379 Hesse
one extensive family only. Meimbressen is near Kassel, Germany. Now, its formal name is Calden Meimbressen in the county or Kreis Hofgeismar. The cemetery is located at the edge of Calden Meimbressen, beside a pasture where sheep graze. The entrance to the cemetery is a huge iron gate about sixteen feet wide, with a continuous hedge approximately five feet in height. The cemetery is at least a hundred yards long by thirty yards wide. The cemetery is not divided into special sections; however, suicides are buried away from the general population near the border. The stones run down the slope in four long rows. The gravestones are approximately 4.5 feet tall and very uniform throughout the cemetery. The inscriptions are German on the side facing the body and Hebrew on the back. Source: Primary information about this cemetery comes from Manfred Vorenberg, El Paso, Texas 79912-5817, Phone # (915) 581-1251 Compiler is Susan V. Musgrave, Los Alamos, NM 87544; Phone # (505) 672-3347; musgr@concentric.net

CALVÖRDE: 39359 Saxony-Anhalt
(CALVOERDE)
7 stones, 1 km suedl. des Ortes. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CAMBERG: 65520 Hesse
I and II. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CARLSBERG: 67316 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CARLSBERG: 67316 Rhineland-Palatinate
Privately owned. Part of Plat Nr. 944. Size: part of 1,980-about 340 sq. meters; opened 1861. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.

CASTROP\RAUXEL: 44575 North Rhine-Westphalia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Has a Jewish cemetery that still exists. Source: Inga Karo, 328 Rockledge Avenue, YHuntingdon Valley, PA 19006.
Hartung, Karl: Der juedische Friedhof in Castrop-Rauxel.-In: Kultur und Heimat 11 (1959), S. 127-130.

CELLE: 29221 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Der juedische Friedhof in Celle; Memor-Buch BET HA-KEVAROT HA-YEHUDI BE-TSELLEH, by Naftali Bar-Giori Bamberger. Heidelberg: Winter 1992, ISBN 3-533-04585-4, 231 pp. Bibliography: p. 230-231. Sources: DIE DEUTSCHE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIE/VLB (DS135.G4 C433 1992) ID# GT 3250 C4 B Source: LBI

CHAM: 93413 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Oberpfalz. A well-tended cemetery with many tombstones after 1945, also older ones, plus memorial tables for the dead of WWI. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].
The cemetery of the former Jewish community of Cham (with names of the families buried there):
http://www.rijo.homepage.t-online.de/pdf/EN_BY_JU_cham2.pdf (English)
http://www.rijo.homepage.t-online.de/pdf/DE_BY_JU_cham3.pdf (German)

CHEMNITZ: 09112 Saxony
I and II. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
We went to the Jewish cemetery in 1992 and 1995. It is very well kept, several hundred tombstones in very good shape. The city provides constant caretaking service. This industrial city had quite a small Jewish population in the 1920's, only a few hundred families. All graves had been kept in excellent shape all these years; now there is a project to re-carve all the names and letters on the stones. The address of the Jewish association is Jüedisch Gemeinde, Stollberger Str. 28, 09119 Chemnitz. The secretary is Dr. Ruth Röecher. Private phone: +(49) 371-304747. She speaks and writes fluent Hebrew, English and, of course, German. Source: Gideon Carmi, Kibb. Machanaim, Israel, June 6, 1996

CLOPPENBURG: 49661 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. General names index. 30 tombstones, 1875-1937. see book listed in Niedersachsen in General Section. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

COBURG: 96450 Bavaria, Oberfranken
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
· Old: orderly, unfenced cemetery is at NE edge of city on Rodacher Str. Has six tombstones and traces of two more.
· New: orderly cemetery is E of town in the municipal cemetery, includes memorial to dead of WW I, to victims [by name] of Nazism, has old and new sections, and post-WWII burials. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].

COCHEM: 56812 Rhineland-Palatinate
Im Wald
Stadt. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

COESFELD: 48653 North Rhine-Westphalia
Gerichtsring:
Osterwicker Str.: Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
Coesfeld (Kreis)
Tilly, Heinz-Peter: "Juedische Friedhoefe im Kreisgebiet" In: Juden im Kreis Coesfeld/Kreis Coesfeld, Der Oberkreisdirektor-Coesfeld, 1990, S. 303-328. Source: AE [sic]

COLOGNE: see Köln

COPPENBRÜGGE: 31863 Lower Saxony
(COPPENBRUEGGE)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Info about the cemetery here.

COSEL: 01936 Saxony
Ehrlich, Richard: "Der neue Friedhof der Breslauer Gemeinde in Cosel" In: Juedisches Volksblatt (Breslau) 8 (1902), S. 75. Source: AE [sic]

COSWIG ANH.: 06869 Saxony-Anhalt
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

COTTBUS: 03050 Brandenburg
· no info.
· Strasse der Jugend, Gruenanlage seit 1960. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CRAILSHEIM: 74564 Baden-Württemberg
SOURCE: Gerz
DISTRICT: Schwäbisch Hall
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Beuerlbacher Strasse (separately marked by arrow).
IN USE: From 1841 until 1968 (including 1942 and 1961).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 415
DOCUMENTATION:
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTES:
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
[Researched and translated from German January 2008]

CRAINFELD: 36355 Hesse. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
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CRAMBERG: 65558 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CREGLINGEN: 97993 Baden-Württemberg
SOURCE: Gerz
REGION: Main-Tauber
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Southeast of Creglingen, known as "Judenbegräbnis" (see note below).
NOTE:
IN USE: From 1696 (oldest legible inscription) until 1939.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 373.
DOCUMENTATION:
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTE:
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg , Alemannia Judaica and the City of Creglingen website.
[Researched and translated from German January 2008]

CRIVITZ: 19089 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
V Tammerstr, eingeebnet. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

CRUMSTADT: see Gross Gerau

CUXHAVEN: 27476 Lower Saxony
Ot. Brockeswalde. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

D
DACHAU: 85221 Bavaria, Oberbayern
"In addition to the Jewish memorial on the site of the former concentration camp, there also is a memorial tablet to the right of the crematorium. Further, there is the large concentration camp cemetery Dachau-Leitenberg with its own memorial plus a plaque in the wall." Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].

DACHSENHAUSEN: 56340 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DALHEIM: 55278 Rhineland-Palatinate (Kreis Mainz)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
Friedhof an der Hohl

DALSHEIM: 67592 (Kreis Alzey)
The cemetery is located outside the city wall on Strasse. It contains about 150 stones. Only the Loeb headstones have been indexed. Other names include Goldsmith, Hauseman, Herzog, Kahn-Mayer, Kaufmann, Klein, Kraemer, Krautkopf, Mayer, Scheuer, and Strauss. The stones are in remarkably good condition considering the overgrowth of ivy that threatens the future contdition of the stones. I do not think that this cemetery is very widely known. Stones were in both German and Hebrew, usually both. The stones are of a superior rock that is one of the reasons they are still in such good shape. It would take a "crew" to restore and record this cemetery of approx. 150 graves. Source: Niell and Fran Loeb Luebke: nfluebke@execpc.com . Begräbnisplatz am Kirchhof

DÄNISCHENHAGEN: 24229 Schleswig-Holstein
(DAENISCHENHAGEN)
Bei Gut Uhlenhorst (Einzelbegrabnis). Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DANKELSHAUSEN: 37127 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DANNENBERG: 29451 Lower Saxony
Gemarkung Prisser. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DANZIG: see Gdansk, Poland and Schottland that is a suburb of Danzig. Cemetery list. Source: LBI

DARFELD: 48720 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DARGUN: 17159 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DARMSTADT: 64285 Hesse
I and II, Flur 4, Nr. 85, 86. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Has a well cared for Jewish cemetery. Book has info & photos. Haus des ewigen Lebens / Beit Hachajim; der Juedische Friedhof in Darmstadt, Grabstaetten von 1714-1848, by Benno Szklanowski & Franz G. Eckhart. Darmstadt: Liebig 1988, ISBN 3-87390-090-4, 346 pp. Sources: DIE DEUTSCHE NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIE/VLB (DS135.G4 D367 1988) Source: Inga Karo, 328 Rockledge Avenue, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006. ID # q GT 3250 D37 D3 Source: LBI
ü Moebus, Walter: Der Judenfriedhof. In: Moebus, Walter: Bessunger Lesebuch: Geschichte und Heimat- kunde / Festausschuss 100 Jahre Bessungen/Darmstadt. -Darmstadt: Reba, 1987, S. 132-234. Source: AE [sic] ü Haus des ewigen Lebens Beit Hachajim: Der juedische Friedhof in Darmstadt; Grabstaetten von 1714-1848.-Bearb. von: Szklanowski, Benno; Franz, Eckhart G.-Darmstadt: Liebig, 1988.-344 S. Source: AE [sic]

DARMSTADT: (all county) See Alsbach-Hähnlein

DASEBURG: 34414 North Rhine-Westphalia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DASSEL: 37586 Lower Saxony
· Ot. Luethorst
· Ot. Mackensen
· Ot. Markoldendorf
· Ot. Sievershausen. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DATTELN: 45711 North Rhine-Westphalia
Loh-Dueppelstr. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DAUBORN: 65597 Hesse
Two-page report "De Jurrekerschhobb," visit to a Jewish cemetery situated between Dauborn und Kirberg; in German; Donors: Gerhard Heckelmann, 1991; Location at LBI : Gerhard Heckelmann collection; Storage-Location: Second floor, Accession Number(s): AR 6373.

DEGGENDORF: 94469 Bavaria (Niederbayern)
I and II. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. All of the two dozen tombstones derive from the post-1945 temporary settlement, not the scattered Jews who lived here in the 19th & 20th c. and were part of the Straubing community.

DEIDESHEIM: 67146 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 523. Size: 804 sq. meters; opened 1712. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.

DEISENHAUSEN: 86489 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DELITZSCH: 04509 Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DELKENHEIM: used the cemetery at Wallau

DELLIGSEN: 31073 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DELMENHORST: 27751 Lower Saxony
Syker Strasse. Stadt. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. General names index. 128 tombstones, 1851-1935. See book listed in Niedersachsen in General Section. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

DEMMELSDORF: 96110 Bavaria, Oberfranken. See Zeckendorf

DEMMIN: 17109 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DENNENLOHE: 91743 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DENSBERG: used Haarhausen (1867-1901)
Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.

DERENBURG: 38895 Saxony-Anhalt
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DERNAU: 53507 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DERTINGEN:
(today part of Wertheim) see Wertheim

DESSAU ANH.: 06842 Saxony-Anhalt
Stenesche Str. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Grossert, Wemer: Der israelitische Friedhof in Dessau-1 . Aufl.-Dessau Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, 1994.-56 S. (Schriftenreihe der Moses-Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft; 2)

DETMOLD: 32756 North Rhine-Westphalia
An der Spitzenkampwete. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DETTELBACH: 97337 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. nr. Kitzingen: There may be buried tombstones, estimates cemetery was established about 1600, but there are no data for this cemetery which is located in the midst of vineyards. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].

DETTENSEE: 72160 Baden-Württemberg
see Horb.

DETTMANNSDORF: 18334 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DEUTZ: 50679 North Rhine-Westphalia
· Im Hasenthal u. Judenkirchhofsweg. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Info about the cemetery is here.

DIEBURG: 64807 Hesse
(names from 1922- 1948 only): Located north of Dieburg in the angle through which the train goes. The entrance is on the road to Muenster. It is over a hectare in size with more than 1,000 graves. The oldest part is the S area, nearest Dieburg. The oldest stones date from the early 1700s and are made of sandstone. City records show older burials in the Dieburg cemetery; and it is therefore assumed that those sank. Additions to the cemetery were made in 1816 and again in 1830. After this time not all stones are in Hebrew. Around 1940, many stones were moved to a Fechenbach castle. After the war, they were brought back. Since the exact location of the graves was unknown, the stones were lined up along the E wall. A pyramid was made of unreadable stones and fragments. Around 1982, all loose stones were laid down face up. Starting in 1990, these were again erected. This work was not yet complete in 1993. The entrance also is being renovated. The cemetery also was used by: Gross-Zimmern, Gundernhausen, Rossdorf, Ober-Ramstadt, Zeilhard, Georgenhausen, Spachbruechken, Reinheim, Ueberau, Gross-Biberau, Lengfeld, Semd, Gross-Umstadt, Klein-Umstadt, Raibach, habitzheim, Ober-Klingen, Messel, Eppertshausen, Muenster, and Urberach. Prof Dr. E. G. Franz, Hessesiches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt, Karolinenplatz 3 64289 Darmstadt is working on inventory of the older stones. This work should be completed (1997). Source: Dr. Franz and Beitraege zur Geschichte dur Juden in Dieburg, Dieburg, 1993 [1996]

DIEDENBERGEN:
used the cemetery at Wallau (1826-1928). Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.

DIEDESHEIM: 74821 Rhineland-Palatinate (Landkreis Bad Duerkheim)
There is an 800 square-meter Jewish cemetery with stones dating from 1800 through 1933. Source: "Wo die totn Menschen schweigen da sprechen um so lauter die lebendigen Steine" by Bernhard Kukatzki in the book Juden in der Provinz.

DIEFFLEN: 66763 Saarland (Kreis Saarlouis)
Am Ortseingang Nalbach. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Area in sq. meters 8,948. From a listing of Jewish cemeteries extant in 1972, based on data from the Synagogue association of the Saar.

DIELKIRCHEN: 67811 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
· Old Cemetery: Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 1434. Size: 820 sq. meters; opened 1850. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.
· New Cemetery: Owned and maintained by Rheinpfalz. Plat Nr. 326/2. Size: 530 sq. meters; opened 1921. Source: Ernest B. Nathan with permission from Juedische Kultusgemeinde der Rheinpfalz.

DIERSBURG: 77749 Baden-Württemberg near Offenburg
see HOHBERG b Offenburg.

DIEMERODE: 36205 Hesse
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DIEPHOLZ
: 49356 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DIERDORF: 56269 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DIERSBURG
: 77749 Baden-Württemberg
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DIESPECK: 91456 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Mittelfranken. Well-tended cemetery has very old & relatively recent tombstones. Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].

DIESSEN A AMMER: 86911 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DIEZ: 65582 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DILLICH:
Used the cemetery at Haarhausen (1795-1928): Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.

DINGOLFING: 84130 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DINSLAKEN: 46535 North Rhine-Westphalia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Wasserturmstr., im Kommunalfr.

DIRMERZHEIM: 50374 North Rhine-Westphalia
Flur 5, Nr. 1. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DIRMERZHEIM: Niederrhein
See Niederrhein in General Section: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Juden.. alphabetical list of names + birth date and place. 32 alphabetical list of names + birth date and place. 2 persons, 1812-1870. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

DOLGESHEIM: 55278 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
Jewish cemetery on Hillersheimer Strasse

DÖMITZ: 19303 Mecklenburg-West Pomerania
(DOEMITZ)
Innerhalb der Theodor-Koerner-Kaserne. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DONAUWÖRTH: 86609 Bavaria
(DONAUWOERTH)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Nothing exists of the documented former cemetery (1350-1519). Source: Steinerne Zeugnisse juedischen Lebens in Bayern; eine Dokumentation, 2nd ed. by Israel Schwierz. Muenchen: Bayerische Landes- zentrale fuer politische Bildungsarbeit 1992, ISBN 3-87052-398-0, 368 pp. [1st ed. 1988, ISBN 3-87052-393-X, 352 pp.].

DORFEN: 84405 Bavaria
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DORLA: used the cemetery at Obervorschuetz (1806-1853)
Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.

DORMAGEN: Niederrhein
see Niederrhein in General Section: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Juden. Alphabetical list of names + birth date and place. 32 alphabetical list of names + birth date and place. 28 persons, 1835-1929. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography . Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

DORMAGEN-ZONS: 41539 North Rhine-Westphalia
Krefelder Str. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DORNBURG: 65599 Hesse
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DORNHEIM: see Gross Gerau

DORNUM: 26553 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DÖRREBACH: 55444 Rhineland-Palatinate
(DOERREBACH)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DORSTEN: 46282 North Rhine-Westphalia
· Am Naturpark Hasselbecke: An open field (5/2) with the size of 1.505 sq. meters
· Ot. Lembeck, Holtberg: Open field #1: (1275/09; size: 321 sq. meters. Open field #2: (435/178-179; size: 821 sw. meters
· Ot. Wulfen Auf der Koppel: Open field 27 (79; size 81 square meter
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Source of details: director of the Amt Hervest-Dorsten, letter of 1961 (also see Erle)

DORTMUND: 44287 North Rhine-Westphalia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
1) Ot. Aplerbeck I
2) Ot. Aplerbeck II
3) Ot. Dellwig-Holte
4) Ot. Dorstfeld
5) Hauptfriedhof
6) Ot. Hoerde
7) Ot. Mengede
8) Ostfriedhof
9) Ot. Wickede.
Two well kept Jewish cemeteries. One is a Jewish cemetery at the "Hauptfriedhof"; contains a small chapel. The other is at the "Ostfriedhof" where about half of the original graves are standing and well maintained, the other half was destroyed by World War II bombings. Neither cemetery appears to have an alphabetical list, though they do maintain records. The Jewish community in Dortmund is located across the street from the synagogue. It covers the whole region and has been helpful in locating particular graves: We also visited this cemetery in June l995. It was in excellent condition. Updated address is Jewish Gemeinde office, Wolfgang Polak, Judische Kultusgemeinde Gross-Dortmund, Prinz-Friedrich-Karl-Strasse 9, 4600 Dortmundthe. Sources: Henry Birnbrey; 71740.150@dub-gw-16.compuserve.com and Margaret Fischbach Bilinsky, St. Louis, July 23, l996; hbilinsky@worldnet.att.net

DÖRZBACH: now incorporating HOHEBACH 74677 Baden-Württemberg
(DOERZBACH)
SOURCE: Gerz
DISTRICT: Hohenlohe, community of Doerzbach (German: Dörzbach)
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Jagsttalstrasse (north of Hohebach detailed location).
IN USE: From 1852 until 1940.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 300.
DOCUMENTATION:
HISTORY:
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTE:
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
[Researched and translated from German January 2008]

DOTZHEIM: used the cemetery at Wiesbaden (1827-1857)
Source: Kommission fuer die Geschichte der Juden in Hessen submitted by Harmut Heinemann of the Commission.

DRAMBURG:
Dramburg: The Jewish Graveyard/ [by] Ernst M. Manasse. Translation by Judy Goldstein. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1986. 296-307 p. 27 cm. Detached from The Southern review, Spring 1986. Photoreproduction. 1. Cemeteries--Dramburg ID # GT 3250 D72 M312 Source: LBI

DRANSFELD: 37127 Lower Saxony (Landkreis Göttingen)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
Friedhof (cemetery): am Rande des "Dransberges" (near the "Dransberg", a hill) --> Strasse "Im Kampe" Richtung Dransberg fahren (you have to go on the street "Im Kampe" to come to that hill) Synagoge /Gedenktafel (synagogue and memorial): Gerlandstrasse: Source: Heidrun Zeidler; Bananenmaus@gmx.net

DREIEICH: 63303 Hesse
"Der juedische Friedhof von Dreieichenhain" by Waldemar Frank. In: Geschichts- und Heimatverein Dreieichenhain; Jubilaeums- schrift 1881-1981 (Stadt und Landschaft Dreieich 5), pp. 208-217

DREIEICHENHAIN: 63303 Hesse
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Frank, Waldemar: "Der juedische Friedhof von Dreieichenhain." In: Geschichts und Heimatverein Dreieichenhain: Jubilaeaumsschrift 1881-1981 (Stadt und Landschart Dreieich; 5), S. 208-217.

DREISSIGACKER: 98617 Thuringia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DRENSTEINFURT: 48317 North Rhine-Westphalia (48317)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
Corner Kleiststrase/Blumenstrase, about 1 km SE of the town center; 548 sqm; 26 gravestones; used ca. 1868-1939. Badly damaged during "Kristallnacht" Nov.1938; restored in 1989. Many stones are withered and some inscriptions are no longer legible. Der juedische Friedhof in Drensteinfurt: Eine Bestandsaufnahme by Werner Bockholt. Drensteinfurt: Stadtarchiv 1990 (Veroeffentl. des Drensteinfurter Stadtarchivs 6), 148+14 pp. 26 gravestones: size, inscription (with German translation if in Hebrew), photos; no biographies. Source: AE [sic]. Info about the cemetery is here.

DRESDEN: 01099 Saxony
I, Pulsnitzer Str. 12
II, Fiedlerstr. 3. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Chronik der Juden in Dresden, by Adolf Diamant. Darmstadt: Agora 1973, ISBN 3-87008-032-9, 521 pp. [Ch. VIII "Die Friedhoefe": 204-225. Table of births, marriages and deaths, 1786-1820, photocopy: item #: 169. I 55 2). Source: LBI

DRIBURG: 33014 North Rhine-Westphalia
Copy of guide to Jewish cemetery; in German; Donors: Ernst Schuster, 1982; Period covered: 1820-1916; 16 pages; location at LBI : Driburg; Jewish community collection; Storage-Location: Second floor; Accession Number(s): AR 5092.

DRINGENBERG: 33014 North Rhine-Westphalia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DROMERSHEIM: 55411 Rhineland-Palatinate
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Friedhof auf den Hörnchen

DROVE: 52372 North Rhine-Westphalia
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. Niederrhein: see Niederrhein in General Section: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Juden.. Alphabetical list of names + birth date and place. 59 persons, 1818-1935. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography . Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

DUDERSTADT: 37115 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DUEDELSHEIM: 63654 Hesse
I and II. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DUINGEN: 31089 Lower Saxony
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DUISBURG: 47139 North Rhine-Westphalia
I am a research assistant at the Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institute for German-Jewish History in Duisburg, Germany and am presently preparing together with the Director of the institute, Professor Dr. Michael Brocke, a documentation of the old Jewish cemetery in Krefeld in the Heideckestrasse for publication, to be followed by documentations of the newer cemetery in the Gladbacher Strassee and the cemeteries of Huels and Linn. To date we have only been able to locate and obtain one single photograph of the old cemetery taken before the war.
Aubrey Pomerance M.A., Salomon Ludwig Steinheim Institut, Geibelstrasse 41, 47057 Duisburg, Germany. Tel.: 0203 / 370071. Fax: 0203 / 373380. email: pom@sti1.uni-duisburg.de . [February 2001]
· Ot. Beeck, Friedhofstr.
· Ot. Buchholz, Duesseldorfer Str., im Kommunalfr.
· Ot. Hamborn, Mettlerstr.
· Ot. Neudorf, Sternbuschweg, im Kommunalfr.
· Ot. Ruhrort. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. DÜLKEN: 41751 North Rhine-Westphalia
(DUELKEN)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DÜLMEN: 48249 North Rhine-Westphalia
(DUELMEN)
Kapellenweg. Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DÜLMEN: Kr. Coesfeld 48249
(DUELMEN)
Kapellenweg, behind Protestant cemetery; 0.38 ha; 98 gravestones, 1826-1938, including 63 from former cemetery Ludinghauser Str. (used 1761-1937). Used 1905-1938. Some stones illegible or damaged. ü Der juedische Friedhof in Duelmen, by Karina Lehnardt. Duelmen: Laumann 1991 (Duelmener Lesebuch 3), ISBN 3-87466-154-7, 168 pp. Lists all gravestones with photos, inscriptions (with German translation if in Hebrew), biographical information, text of obituaries in local newspapers, references; cemetery diagram, name & place index; (DS135.G4 D8555 1991)
Brathe, Heinz: Juedische Friedhoefe in DueLmen.-In: Duelmener Heimatblatter (1988), Nr. 3/4, S. 6-9 84. Lehnardt, Kafina; Wiehe, Karsten: Der juedische Friedhof in Duelmen.-Duelmen: Stadt Duelmen, 1991. -168 S. Dueren (Kreis).
Dowe, L.: Die juedischen Friedhoefe im Kreis Dueren.-In: Eifel-Jahrbuch (Dueren) (1989), S. 104-112 Duesseldoff.
Kohut, A.: Ein Besuch auf dem alten israelitischen Ffiedhof zu Duesseldorf.-In: Der Israelit 53 (1912),Nr. 1, S. 3.
Lohausen, Herman: Der alte juedische Friedhof in Duesseldorf- Kaiserswerth.-In: Duesseldorfer Famueien-kunde 17 (1981), S. 101-104.] Lohausen, Herman: Duesseldorfs alteste juedische Grabsteine.-In: Duesseldoffer Famueienkunde 23 (1987), Nr. 1, S. 25-29.

DÜNSBACH: see GERABRONN
(DUENSBACH)

DURBACH: 77770 Baden-Württemberg
SOURCE: Gerz.
DISTRICT: Ortenaukreis.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Between Klingelbergerstrasse 2 and 4.
IN USE:
  From 1813 until 1917. Last burial 1917 (Jakob Bodenheimer). The oldest gravestone, dated 1848, is decorated with columns and a decorative ornamentation.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 17
DOCUMENTATION:
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTES:
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Alemannia Judaica.
[Researched and translated from German January 2008]

DÜREN: 52349 North Rhine-Westphalia
(DUEREN)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.
· I
· Il a, Arnoldstr.
· Il b, Binsfelderstr.

· DÜREN: Niederrhein
(DUEREN)
see Niederrhein in General Section: Dokumentation zur Geschichte der Juden.. alphabetical list of names + birth date and place. 171 persons, 1814-1940 and one person 1950. Source: Tagger, Mathilde A. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography . Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.

DÜREN: (area):
(DUEREN)
Die juedischen Friedhoefe im Kreis Dueren, [von] Ludger Dowe. [Dueren, 1989] 87-96 p. illus. 30 cm. Detached from Jahrbuch des Kreises Dueren, 1989. Photoreproduction. Bibliography: p. 96. ID # q GT 3250 D78 D6 Source: LBI

DURLACH: 76227 Baden-Württemberg
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DÜRRWANGEN: 8817 Bavaria
(DUERRWANGEN)
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz.

DÜSSELDORF: 40476 North Rhine-Westphalia
(DUESSELDORF, DUSSELDORF)
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· Ot. Gerresheim, Mansfeldstr.
· Ot. Gerresheim, Quadenhofer Str.
· Ot. Gerresheim, Unter den Eichen
· I, Ulmenstr.
· II, Ulmenstr., im Kommunalfr.
· Kaiserswerth, Zeppenheimer Weg (see below)
· Urdenbach.
Source: Mahnmal gegen Rassismus Saarbrücken by Jochen Gerz. 170. III 13 Duesseldorf, Memorbuch, 1714, German, copy. Source: LBI -Leo Baeck Institute donated by: H. Jacobson, 1969 identified there as: Finding Aids: 39-page inventory; Period covered (or date of publication): 1660-1958; Size of the collection: 18 feet 37 reels. Location at LBI : Jacob Jacobson collection; Storage-Location: V 8/1-8, 2nd floor left microfilm cabinet Accession Number(s): AR 7002, MF 134(2), MF 447, 1-37.
Cemetery list. Source: LBI -Leo Baeck Institute donated by: H. Jacobson, 1969 identified there as: Finding Aids: 39-page inventory; Period covered (or date of publication): 1660-1958; Size of the collection: 18 feet 37 reels. Location at LBI : Jacob Jacobson collection; Storage-Location: V 8/1-8, 2nd floor left microfilm cabinet Accession Number(s): AR 7002, MF 134(2), MF 447, 1-37. also see Willich Surburban Urdenbach Cemetery is on a tiny lot behind house at Peter-Behrenstr. 1. in subdivision called Garath. About 20 graves, last known burial 1923. Contact Landesverband der Juedischen Gemeinden von Nordrhein, Postfach 32 06 31, D-40421 Duesseldorf. Source: Wes Eichenwald.
ü Die koenigliche Staatsregierung und die Frage der confessionellen Friedhoefe/ Kohut, Adolph, 1848-1917 Duesseldorf: J. J. Olbertz, 1877. 16p. 18cm. ID # GT 3250 D8 K6 Source: LBI
ü Duesseldorfs aelteste juedische Grabsteine./Lohausen, Herman; [Duesseldorf, 1987] 25-29 p. illus. 21 cm. (In Duesseldorfer Familienkunde, 23. Jahrg., Heft 1., 1987) ID # GT 3250 D83 L63 Source: LBI
ü Der alte juedische Friedhof in Duesseldorf-Kaiserswerth/ Lohausen, Herman; Duesseldorf: 1981. 101-104 p. illus. 21 cm. (In Duesseldorfer Familienkunde, 17 Jahrg., Heft 3, 1981) ID # GT 3250 D83 L6 Source: LBI

DUSSLINGEN: (near Tuebingen in Württemberg) see Wankheim

DYHRENFURTH:
171. III 14 Dyhrenfurt, Chevra Kadisha (Burial Society), by-laws and other records, 1782-1807, photocopoy, Hebrew and Yiddish. Cemetery list. Source: LBI - Leo Baeck Institute donated by: H. Jacobson, 1969 identified there as: Finding Aids: 39-page inventory; Period covered (or date of publication): 1660-1958; Size of the collection: 18 feet 37 reels. Location at LBI : Jacob Jacobson collection; Storage-Location: V 8/1-8, 2nd floor left microfilm cabinet Accession Number(s): AR 7002, MF 134(2), MF 447, 1-37.

DYHERRENFURTH:
Alte schlesische Judenfriedhoefe (Breslau und Dyherrnfurth) mit 45 Abbildungen/ von Grotte, Alfred, Berlin: G. Hackebeil, 1927. 43 p. illus. 25 cm. (Monographien zu Denkmalpflege und Heimatschutz, 1) Freimann, p. 280. ID # GT 3250 B7 G7 Source: LBI
Grotte, Alfred: Der alte Judenfriedhof in Dyhemfurth.-In: Schlesische Monatshefte 3 (1926), S. 277- 280. Source: AE [sic]
L., G.: Die letzte Beerdigung auf dem juedischen Friedhof Dyhemfurth.-In: Breslauer juedisches Gemeindeblatt 13 (1936), Nr. 22, S. 5. Source: AE [sic]


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