LANDSBERG am LECH incorp.ERPFTING: 86899 Upper Bavaria (Gerz, Peters).
DISTRICT: Urban district.
LOCATION OF CEMETERY:
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I. Landsberg a.Lech: to the end of Max-von-Eyth Strasse, past industrial zone. Follow signpost: KZ-Friedhof to cemetery gate.
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II. Landsberg - Erpfting: Follow Eichkapellenstrasse abt. 1km into the woods to signpost leading to cemetery entrance.
IN USE:
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Both cemeteries are the last resting places for many tens of thousands of Jews who perished in Nazi concentration camps.
DOCUMENTATION:
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Jüdische Friedhöfe in Bayern publ. Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst - click on KZ-Friedhöfe and Landsberg a.Lech as well as Landsberg/Erpfting.
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Landsberg in the 20th Century: The European Holocaust Memorial - a publication by the Landsberg Citizens Association Against Racism and Totalitarianism. (in German, English, French and Hebrew).
PUBLICATIONS:
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Stefanie Endlich and others: Gedenkstaetten fuer die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus, eine Dokumentation [Vol.II] - project management and edited by Ulrike Puvogel, 831 pages, ill. publ. 1999 by Bundeszentrale fuer politische Bildung, Bonn, pages 157-159 (LBI).
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Israel Schwierz: Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern - refer to Sources below.
NOTES:
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The Landsberg a. Lech cemetery contains a few individual gravestones and a large chapel as well as some stone benches for visitors to sit on. Both cemeteries have a number of appropriate commemorative stones, displaying large Magen Davids. In the Landsberg-Erpfting cemetery is a fairly large house and also a few individual gravestones.
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Both cemeteries are kept in excellent condition. They are enclosed by low solid walls and have wrought iron Magen David decorated gates.
SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, pages317-318 (Schwierz LBI).
(Researched and translated from German March 2010).