JACOB JR, MY JEWISH WORLD. THE JEWISH CEMETERY, BERN/SWITZERLAND

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Sunday, Av 21, 5777. August 13, 2017.

Shalom! World.
The Jewish cemetery in Bern is part of the Jewish community in Bern, and is located on Papiermühlestrasse  112 in Bern.

Bern already had a Jewish graveyard in the middle ages; in 1377, he is mentioned as kilchhof and 1458 Jew  Kilchhof. It was located where today is the East Wing of the Federal House and adquired bit by bit from the island. monastery in the Wake of  1427 complete expulsion of the Jews from Bern from 1323.



A Jewish community existed in Bern until 1848; deceased were buried at first, as well as  in the case of the Jewish community of Basel on the Jewsih cemetery in Hégenheim (Alsace), on September 5, 1871 the cemetery in the vicinity of  today's Stade de Suisse Wankdorf opened. From about 2000 burial places are now about 1800.


At the Jewish cemetery in Bern are the Publisher and cabaret Director Leon Hirsch, the  philosopher  Max Horkheimer and his wife Maidon, Horkheimer friend Friedrich Pollock and buried the chocolate manufacturer Camille Bloch and his sucessor Rolf Bloch. Since 1988, a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust, designed by Oskar Weiss is here.


Shalom! Aleichem.

Suporte cultural:  Jacob Jr. B.A.C.E., avec L'Integration d'Association avec Israel et dans le Monde/Cz.

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