Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee
Jewish cemetary
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The Jewish cemetery at Weißensee is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe. More than 115,000 Berliners are laid to rest here. The cemetery was founded in 1880. It was created by the architect Hugo Licht, who designed the yellow brick buildings and laid out the grave-plots in triangular, rectangular and trapezoid patterns. Just behind the entrance is a memorial to the six million Jews who were murdered by the Nazis: stone slabs arranged in a circle are inscribed with the names of each of the concentration camps. Many famous Berliners were buried here, including the painter Lesser Ury and the publishers Samuel Fischer and Rudolf Mosse. While Jewish gravestones are normally simple and unadorned, symbolising the equality of humankind in death, many assimilated Jews in 19th-century Berlin adopted the ornate and splendid graves so characteristic of the Wilhelminian era. Traditional, simple gravestones can therefore be found side-by-side with elaborate monuments to the deceased, including such outstanding works of art as Walter Gropius's cubist sepulchre for Albert Mendel, and Ludwig Hoffmann's family plot for the Panowskys. |
| Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee |
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Herbert-Baum-Straße 45 13088 Berlin-Weißensee Tel.: 92 533 30 Fax: 92 37 62 96 |
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Antonplatz: 12
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