"The (approximately) 150-year-old cemetery was desecrated, and the gravestones were thrown into the Ems after the site was leveled [on Pogrom Night]...A memorial was later unveiled at the Jewish cemetery"
Ruth Martina Trucks
Copyright: Pogrom Night 1938 - A Memorial to the Destroyed Synagogues of Germany/ Germansynagogues.com

Notes

Sources: Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinde in Deutschen Sprachraum, Klaus Dieter-Alicke, [publisher] Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008., Feuer in dein Heiligtum gelegt: Zerstörte Synagogen 1938 Nordrhein-Westfalen, Michael Brooke [Ed.], Meier Schwarz [foreword], [publisher] Kamp, 1999.

Details

Date Added Mar 25, 2020
Category Cemetery
Country DE
State North Rhine-Westphalia
City Telgte
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