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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: DEN-00001
Cemetery Name: Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads (Jewish Western Cemetery)
Section: Volume I and II
Cemetery Location
Country: Denmark
City: Copenhagen
Street: Vestre Kirkegårds Allé 11, DK-2450 Copenhagen SV
Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 983
Number of Photographs: 951
Cemetery Description:

Copenhagen Western Cemetery was established 19 January 1886, and is still in use.

The information comes from two sources:

Elias Levin: Jodiske gravstene ... på Mosaisk Vestre begravelsesplads = Jewish tombstones ... on Mosaisk Vestre cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark, Vol. 1: 1886-1900. Danish and English text, and photos of the tombstones. Copenhagen, 1986. Volume 2: 1900 - 1915. Published Elias Levin, Copenhagen. ISBN: 87-9824081-1.

Julius Margolinsky: "Jodiske Dodsfald i Danmark 1693-1976" Henning Jensen, Director of Dansk Historisk Håndbogsforlag, Copenhagen, Publisher

Volume I is complete. Volume II will be added.
Data last updated: 09/22/2003

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