International Jewish Cemetery Project

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THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Library/8945/kinah.html [October 2001]
http://www.haruth.com/EbreiDiItalia.html [October 2005]
Also select the Italy link at http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/comm_west.html

BOOKS:
Berliner, Dr. A. Hebraeishe Grabschriften in Italian (Hebrew Grave Inscriptions in Italy). Frankfort am Main: 1881. (109p) (200 inscriptions, 16th-17th centuries) [WN1881] available at the Hebrew College Library in Brookline, MA.

Military Graves:
Headstones with Stars of David at gravesites are maintained abroad by The American Battle Monuments Commission Source: Commission sheet entitled "Headstones Emplaced at Grave Sites (World Wars I and II)" dated 9 May 1994. Source: Jonathan L. Eisenberg, Minnetonka, Minnesota; eisjon@email.briggs.com or c/o SEisenbrg@aol.com . World War II Cemeteries are in Florence (76 headstones) and Sicily-Rome, Nettuno (24 headstones).

THE CEMETERIES
ASMARA, Eritrea:
A Jewish cemetery section exists in the old Italian cemetery in Asmara, Eritrea. I visited it in 1998. Many of the tombstones have Hebrew lettering and most date from the late 1890s. There is also an old synogogue in the city of Asmara. Source: Deborah Rubin Drubincp@aol.com

BIELLA:
Camillo Olivetti (born Ivrea), the founder of the Olivetti typewriter and business machines firm, died in 1944 and is buried in the local Jewish cemetery at Biella.

BOLOGNA:
Jewish Community: Communita Israelitica, Via Gombruti, 9, Bologna 40123: (3951) 32066 [October 2001]
http://www.museoebraicobo.it/Inglese/txt_itinerari_bologna_certosa.htm " "...dates from the 19th century and forms part of the municipal cemetery in via Certosa. is a large area divided into three sections. The oldest section, founded around 1867, includes impressive monumental tombs and also the pre-burial hall. The intermediate section, added in the 1930s, does not include grand monuments, and in the most recent section, opened in 1956, the tombs are marked by simple marble slabs." [January 2001].

BRINDISI:
On Via Guido are remnants of the ancient Jewish community, such as a Hebrew grave marker.

CALABRIA: see Tarsia

CORTEMAGGIORE:

On Morlenzo Street (outside built-up area), the wall and some tombstones remain. Photos can be found on the following site http://www.cortemaggiore.com under monuments, under synagogue, and " cimitero ebraioco", English version not currently working March [2001]

COSENZA: see Tarsia

FERRAMONTI: see TARSIA

FERRARA:

Via delle Vigne 2

FLORENCE:
Jewish Community: Comunita Ebraica di Firenze, Via Luigi Carlo Farini, 4, Florence 50121; (055) 245252 [October 2001]
In the courtyard of the Florence Synagogue (Via L.C. Farini 4, tel. 245-252) is the Martyr's Memorial, a large marble tablet with the names of 248 Florentine Jews who perished during the Nazi period. The Jewish Museum also is located here. [2000]
http://www.fol.it/sinagoga [January 2001]

Via di Caciolle 14:
Via Ludovico Ariosto 14:
The Church of Santa Croche: 1 burial, i.e., the Jewish architect, who designed The Church of Santa Croche, at his request, was buried there.

GENOA:
Genoa Jewish Community: Comunita Ebraica di Genova, Via Bertora, 6, Genoa 16122; (010) 891513 [October 2001]

LIVORNO/LEGHORN:
Jewish Community: Comunita Israelitica di Livorno, Via del Tempio, 3, Leghorn; (058) 624290 [October 2001]

MERAN:
The synagogue address is Synagoge Schillerstrassse, I 39012 Meran, Italy.

Near the Austrian boarder in the Italian Alps of northern Italy is this resort area with about 35,000 inhabitants. The area visitor information e-mail is zugast@dnet.it . The Jewish cemetery is fairly large, well maintained, and still active today. The address is St. Josefstrasse, Meran. Both German and Italian are spoken in the area. Source: Heinz Zimmerman heizim@aol.com

MILAN:
Jewish Community: Comunita Israelitica di Milano, Via Guastalla, 19, Milan 28122; (02) 791892 [October 2001]

Cemitiere Maggiore: In 1972, a small area of the huge non-Jewish cemetery was sectioned off for Jewish burials. At that time, the graves seemed quite neglected. Source: aaptowit@acs.ucalgary.ca

MODENA:
http://www.uky.edu/Architecture/wakeup/issue4/aaron/welcome.htm [January 2001]

NAPLES:
The National Museum has several ancient Jewish tombstones dating back to 14 BCE.

PADUA: (Padova)
Jewish Community: Padua Comunita Ebraica di Padova, Via San Martino & Solferino, 9, Padua 35122; (069) 875 1106 [October 2001]
There are two ancient cemeteries. Source: The Jewish Travel Guide , 1992. Published by the Jewish Chronicle-London.

San Leonards (near __): The Jewish cemetery on Vio Zodio dates from the 17th century.
Via Codalunga (near Bastione della Gatta). Issac Ben Yehuda Abrabanel, Minister of Finance for King Alphonse V of Portugal, is buried here.

PISA:
The Association "ALEF TAV" has opened public visits to the Monumental Jewish Cemetery of Pisa. The cemetery dates from 1674, but also contains several tombstones from the previous cemetery that date aprox between 1616 and 1690. Thousands of tombs are presently subject to study including Segfreid Kapper (physician and poet, who wrote the verse for several Brahms songs), Alessandro d'Ancona (Senator, Lord Mayor of Pisa and learned Professor of lituratiure at the University), and Carlo Cammeo (political martyr assasinated in 1921.) Further information is available from John Jarratt, Alef Tav, Pisa, Tel 050 9711383. chris@bluereeftour.com [August 2003]
UPDATE: The Jewish community of Pisa maintains the historic Jewish cemetery of our community. The partnership between our community and Alef tav was ended in March 2004.

Jewish Community of Pisa
Comunità Ebraica di Pisa,
Via Palestro 24, Pisa-Italy.
Tel 050/542580.
Email: com_ebraicapi@tin.it.
website:www.pisaebraica.it.

The address of the Jewish cemetery of Pisa is Via Cammeo in Pisa. The site is connected to the square near the tower of Pisa. Source: Board of Jewish Community of Pisa, Dr. Giacomo Schinasi, Administrator.
Giurisdizione territoriale: Pisa, Lucca e Viareggio. Via Palestro, 24
56127 Pisa
(Italia). telefono e fax: (+ 39) 050.54.25.80
[July 2005]

PITIGLIANO:
http://www.pitigliano-ferien.de/pr.jerusalem-e.html [January 2001]
http://www.pitigliano-toscana.com/ [March 2003]
http://www.pitigliano-toscana.com/pitigliano.html [March 2003]
http://www.chefwalter.com/Pitigliano.html [October 2001]

PROSECCO: see TRIESTE
Austro-Ungaric cemetery: Prosecco (Prosek) was an independent municipality, but apparently its town hall no longer exists. Prosecco became a district of the town of Trieste. Prosecco burials: PHOTOS: http://www.thule-italia.com/Marco71/Prosecco/Prosecco.html. Research the archive of the hospital through the city of Trieste and ask for a death certificate. http://www.retecivica.trieste.it, The URP (Ufficio Rapporti con il pubblico) Public Relations Bureau of the Townhall of Trieste is URP Comune di Trieste via della Procureria 2A, tel. 0406754850, fax 0406756060, email: urp@comune.trieste.it. Source: Nardo Bonomi - Italy, email: nbonomi@libero.it, in JewishGen Digest, August 15, 2005. [October 2005]

ROME:
Rome Jewish Community: 112796 Comunita Israelitica di Roma, Lungotevere Cenci, Rome 00186; (06) 655051 [October 2001]
Jewish Museum of Rome, Lungetovere Cenci 9, Tel. 65-64-648.
Alternate Italian name is Roma. Current town population: circa 4 million. Town's current Jewish population: circa 15,000 - 20,000.

Ardeatine Caves on outskirts of Rome was the site of the March 1944 massacre of 335 people, of whom seventy were Jewish. Monument and cemetery. Source: James Walston Jwalston@riu.edu
Prima Porta Cemetery: "There is a Jewish section of Prima Porta Cemetery on the outskirts of Rome." Source: World Jewry from World Jewish Congress, Feb 1997.
Appian, Nomentana, Labicana and Portuense Roads Catacombs: Four Jewish catacombs were discovered along the Appian, Nomentana, Labicana and Portuense roads. The last of these contains the remains of the Jews of Trastevere, probably the most ancient Jewish cemetery so far discovered in Italy. A large collection of these catacombs' 1st to 6th century gravestones with Jewish symbols and inscriptions in Greek, Latin and Hebrew can be seen at the Sala Judaica at the Vatican Museum. They provide precious documentation of the civil and religious life of the first Jewish settlers in Rome.
Catacomb in the ex-vigna Cimarra: Postal address of cemetery is via di San Sebastiano, No. 28. Person to contact about grave locations: Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Piazza delle Finanze, no. 1 00185 Rome.
    The earliest known Jewish community in town dates from the third century BCE. Cemetery's founding date is not certain. Rome is Europe's oldest continuous Jewish community. The cemetery is not land-marked. No caretaker. The cemetery is inactive and has been since no later than fourth century CE, used by Jews in Ancient Rome.
    The suburban subterranean, i.e. catacomb) is separate, but near catacombs of St. Sebastian and hypogaeum Polimanti. Turning off a private road and crossing private property reach the cemetery. Access to the cemetery is open with permission of Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma. A continuous masonry wall, a broken fence, and a locking gate surround the cemetery. Gravestones were removed from the cemetery are in the De Rossi Collection at the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome and the Lapidary collection at the Church of St. Sebastian's Outside the Walls (Rome.) The museum is the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology in Rome. Private collections also have stones.
    Some of the marble flat, or finely smoothed and inscribed stones or sculpted monuments have traces of painting on their surfaces. The cemetery contains special memorial monuments to archon (official), mellogrammateus (official); and member of the synagogue of the "Eleas."
    Private individual(s own the cemetery property now used for private family residence. Properties adjacent are agricultural and residential. The site is virtually inaccessible because of private ownership. No vandalism or maintenance. Within the limits of the cemetery is a mausoleum building.
    Very serious threats are vandalism, security (uncontrolled access, weather erosion, and incompatible nearby development. The vegetation overgrowth in the cemetery is not a problem. Water drainage at the cemetery is a constant problem, disturbing tombstones or graves.
      International Catacomb Society, P.O. Box 130439, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109-1306 USA, (617) 742-1285, email: info@catacombsociety.org; www.catacombsociety.org visited the site and completed the survey on August 6, 2002. Documentation was independent research. Other documentation exists but was not used because it was too old and too general. Workers digging for pozzolana on the property of Count Cimarra discovered this underground cemetery or "catacomb" in 1866. Briefly described by Giovanni Battista de Rossi in the Bollettino di Archeologia Cristiana of the following year. The property has changed hands quite recently. Access to the site is now blocked by modern debris filling many of the galleries. A well nearby has led to much water infiltration inside the catacomb.

BOOKS:

Geschichte der Juden in Rom [The History of the Jews of Rome] by Dr. A. Berliner, Frankfurt am Main, 1893. This two-volume set of books includes the history "from the oldest times to the present" and covers a span of 2050 years. The index lists many references to families and individual names. Source: Werner Hirsch whirsch869@aol.com , who has the book.
Die Inschriften der juedischen Katakombe am Monteverde zu Rom entdeckt und erklaert von Nikolaus Mueller (1857-1912); nach des Verfassers Tode vervollstaendigt und herausgegeben von Nikos; A. Bees. Leipzig: Harrassowitz, 1919. IX, 184p. illus. 33cm. (Schriften herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums) Added title-page. At the Leo Baeck Institute : ID # f GT 3252 R6 M8
Die juedische Katakombe am Monteverde zu Rom; Der aelteste bisher bekannt gewordene Friedhof des Abendlandes von Mueller, Nikolaus, 1857-1912 Leipzig: Fock, 1912. 142p. 22cm. (Schriften herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums) Bibliographical footnotes. Added title page. At the Leo Baeck Institute : ID # GT 3252 R6 M82

SAN DANIELE DEI FRIULI:
San Daniele dei Friuli is in northeastern Italy near Trieste. The cemetery just outside of San Daniele dei Friuli is a walled area, with large entry gate, and is well kept with tall trees. Although it is closed, a key can be requested from the town officials. See "Friiuli Venezia Giulia, Itinerai Ebraici, I luoghi, la storia, l'arte" published by Marsilio Editore, Venezia, Authors, Cusin and Zorattini. There is a Jewish cemetery in Trieste and also in Gorizia. There are Hebrew inscribed tombstones in the Archeological Museum in Cividale, where there is also a street named "Strada degli Ebrei". You could get in touch with Cento Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea - fax 039 02 33602728 or write cdec@cdec.it Source: Margery Kronengold at margery.kr@libero.it. [January 2003]

TARSIA: Cosenza (CS) Province {10692}

Catholic Church of St. Peter & Paul Cemetery: The active Catholic cemetery has the last known Jewish burial in 1940-45. [Catholic Church of St. Peter & Paul, 87040 Tarsia, Consenza CS, Italty. Telephone from U.S. 011-39-981] 1940-45 internment of Jews occurred in Ferramonti, about 6 km from the town of Tarsia, or 20 minutes south on the A3 Autostrade, nearest the town of Cosenza where the Crati River and A3 cross. Ferramonti was a camp that existed from 1940 to 1945, used for Jews (apparently bound for Palestine but caught here during W.W.II) and many others, including US Citizens trapped when war broke out. There is a wall commemorating those who died at that camp. After the war, their families disinterred all but four of the Jewish people buried there from 1940-45. These four Jewish burials are in single, in-ground graves. The four burials include one illegible one. The wall reads "In memoria dei naufraghi del pentcho 'internati a Ferramonti e deceduti dal 1942-1944." Disinterred Jewish burials listed are Ungar Josef, Guen Erwin, Gross Ignatz, Halperin Fischer Zahava, Wald Schaghne-the "g" could be a "c", Weissberger Shmuel, Weil Paula, Neumann Strelinger Magoi, Furst Shraga, Freund Albert, Feller Eugen, and Rosinger Weiss Ghavna. On either side of the list are a few small plaques: 1. Richard Trostler, nato il 23/X 1878 a Vienna, morto il 23/III 1944; 2. Joseph Richard Goldstein, nato il 13/II or III 1874 a Coltbus, morto il 10/I/1943; 3. Hugo Meitner nato il 10/XI 1888 Ung Brod, morto il 13/X 1941; 4. Leo Wellesz, nato il 2/I 1943 a Ferramonti, morto il 4/4/1943.
BOOK: Capogreco, Carlo Spartaco. FERRAMONTI-La vita e gliuomini del piu grande campo d'internamento fascista . Via Ricasoli 26, 50122 FIRENZE, ITALIA: Editrice La Giuntina, 1987. The book describes the camp in Italian. Pictures were taken August 1977. Town population: 1000-5000 with no known current Jewish population. Cosenza, about 20 minutes south on Autostrade A3.I, is the nearest large city. No other towns or villages used this cemetery. (People who were born here are brought back for burial from other places.) There is a monument maker in Spezzano Albanese but people possibly used one in Bisignano or Cosenza, a little further away. A handwritten (Italian) list in chronological order in a notebook lists the burials in the cemetery. Cemetery Hours are posted outside gate: approx. 8:30am-5pm, but later in summer, about 7pm. Flower Policy: liberal with flowers & plants on many graves. The caretaker has the key. The cemetery location is rural (agricultural), on flat land, and about a mile or so from Crati River. A sign in Italian marks the cemetery reading: "Cimitero". This site is the only cemetery for town of Tarsia. The cemetery is reached off the Autostrade A3 at Tarsia exit, then north following sign to Tarsia. Access to the cemetery is open to all. A continuous masonry wall and two gates that lock surround the cemetery. The current size of the cemetery is approximately two acres. The four Jewish tombstones are from the 19th and 20th centuries. Inscriptions of the four Jewish tombstones are in Hebrew. The cemetery contains a special memorial monument to Jews who died at Ferramonti: Hebrew column next to each name on wall in Italian, some Hebrew on small plaques, and four Jewish graves. The present owner of the cemetery property is either the Catholic Church or possibly the diocese or the town-commune and as such is well cared for. Source: Ellen Barbieri, 1116 Akron St., San Diego, California USA 92106-2402, (619) 226-0803 elsal@cts.com visited the site and completed the survey on 12 Sep 1997.

TRIESTE:
Riseria di San Saba, site of the Nazi concentration camp and now a national monument (rose garden on site of crematorium) to Italian Jews and Resistance fighters killed by the Nazis. Sefer gal haavanim. Book of Stones of Rabbis and other personalities in Trieste by Lutsato, Aharon; Trieste, 1851 (Hebrew) notes: Period: 1753-1851. 88 tbsts (include a couple). Index by personal names. Short biographies. Source: National and University Library, Jerusalem
Until 1918, Trieste was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Trieste has a Jewish Community. Address: via S.Francesco 19, 34133 Trieste, ITALY. [October 2001]
http://www.ushmm.org/assets/italy.htm discusses Holocaust claims. [October 2001] "...returned in August, 1997, five sacks of valuables, which were discovered in a Treasury vault and contain jewelry, precious stones, watches, coins, silver cutlery and other objects, personal items such as wedding rings, eyeglasses, gold teeth and prostheses, which were looted from Jews at the Nazi death camp of San Saba near Trieste. Tullia Zevi, President of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, formally accepted the sack from Ciampi. The Union will hand the property over to the Jewish community of Trieste, on the Adriatic coast of northern Italy."

TURIN:
Torino Jewish Community: Comunita Israelitica, Via S. Pio V, 12, Torino 10125; (011) 669 2387 [October 2001]

VENICE:
Venice Jewish Community: Comunita Ebraica di Venezia, Cannaregio 2899, Venice 30121; IT (041) 715012 [October 2001]
BOOKS:
Boccato, Carla. The Ancient Jewish cemetery of San Nicolo on the Lido in Venice . Venice: Committee for the Historical Jewish Center of Venice, 1981. Translated from the Italian by Lillian Hertzberg. DS135.I85 V35713 198 1ITALY
    Berliner, A. Luhot Abanim; hebraeische Grabschriften in Italien; erste Teil . (Tombstones; Hebrew inscriptions in Italy; 1st vol.). Frankfurt am Main, 1881. 190 pages. Hebrew & German. 29V4824. Notes: 300 tombstones, 1594-1647, based on Leo de Modena manuscript list (1571-1648). For part 2, see Bernstein book. Source: Tragger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
    Berliner, A. Luhot Abanim... - part 2; 180 Italian-Hebrew epitaphs of the 16th-19th centuries. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1935. Pages 483-552. 36B380. Notes: 180 inscriptions (some not complete), 1536-1813, based on Leo de Modena manuscript list, chronology, Hebrew inscription & notes, English alphabetical index including family and personal names + spouse name (if existing) + death year + inscription number. For part 1, see Berliner's book. Source: Source: Tragger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
    L'antico cimitero ebraico di San Nicolo di Lido (The old Jewish cemetery of San Nicolo di lido at Venice, by A. Ottolenghi and R. Pacifici. Venice, 1929. 12 pages, illustrated, Italian. S58B495. Notes: 5 tombstones, 1636-1697, cemetery history. Source: Source: Tragger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
    Le iscrizioni dell'antico cimitero ebraico a Venezia (The inscriptions of the old Jewish cemetery in Venice, by R. Pacifici. Alexandria, Egypt, 1938. 140 pages, Italian. S39B789. Notes: 300 tombstones, 1481-1756, chronology, Venice Jews history and bibliography, family names index including death dates. Source: Tragger, Mathilde. Printed Books on Jewish cemeteries in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem: an annotated bibliography. Jerusalem: The Israel Genealogical Society, 1997.
http://www.archipelago.org/vol2-3/lido.htm
     A massive documentation and preservation effort was organized under the auspices of the Jewish Community of Venice and funded through a public-private partnership with major support coming from the Veneto Region and the private preservation organizations "Save Venice" and the "World Monuments Fund." The Lido cemetery, one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Europe, contains hundreds of graves and gravestones. Save Venice at 15 West 74th Street, NY, NY 10021, tel. 212-737-3141 / fax 212-249-0510 or in Venice, tel. 041-52-85-247 / fax 041-52-31-843. SEE: http://www.isjm.org/Links/news8_18.htm

Lido di Venezia: The Jewish cemetery at San Nicolo (Via Cipro 70 and Riviera San Nicolo 2) on the island of Lido dates back to 1386. Its 17th century vertical tombstones have particularly interesting Hebrew inscriptions. A fenced wood exists. The cemetery grounds began as a vineyard adjacent to the Benedictine monastery of San Nicolo di Mira. In the 1800s, a new cemetery was opened in an adjacent area. The Lido then became urban. Excavations revealed many long hidden graves. The tombstones are once again enclosed, many not in original place. Originally reserved for the Sephardim, graves faced toward Venice. There are numerous pictures and more details about the tombstones.

UPDATE: The Steven H. and Alida Brill Scheuer Foundation is the largest single private donor to the restoration of the Ancient Cemetery on the Lido and also the restoration of the Scola Tedesca in the Ghetto itself. Source: Alida Brill-Scheuer, President, The Steven H. and Alida-Brill Scheuer Foundation <Alidabrill@aol.com> [October 2005]

VENOSA:

Christian and Jewish catacombs: "Of great historical importance, they lie abandoned on a hillside in open country, where sheep graze. Vandalism dates back centuries. The inscriptions reveal a Jewish community very much part of local society, producing doctors, writers, prominent landowners and members of the city administration." [Source?].

VERONA:
Verona Jewish Community: Comunita Ebraica di Verona, Via Portici, 3, Verona; (045) 8007112 [October 2001]

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