Germany / Berlin

Weissensee Jewish Cemetery

Practical info

Type of location: Cemetery

Weissensee Jewish Cemetery

Herbert-Baumstrasse 31, Weissensee

+49 (0) 30 9253330

http://www.jg-berlin.org/en/judaism/cemeteries/weissensee.html

Historical description

Berlin

Once again the capital of a unified Germany, Berlin today has the largest Jewish community in the country (11000 people). This is nonetheless far fewer than the some 170000 Jews who lived here just before Hitler’s rise to power in 1933. One can well imagine ... Read more