ICHENHAUSEN

In the Jewish cemetery in Ichenhausen the approximate 1,100 gravestones were filmed and documented by Ruth and Aharon Bruck. [August 2013]

ICHENHAUSEN: 89335 Bavaria, Swabia (Gerz, Peters).

DISTRICT: Günzburg (Guenzburg).

LOCATION OF CEMETERY:

• From Krumbacher Strasse (A) to (B) before railroad crossing lane on left leading to cemetery gate (Detail).

IN USE:

• From 1568 until 1942 for the last Jew from Ichenhausen. 18 Hungarian Jews were buried here in March 1945 having perished in the Burgau forced labour camp; another 3 Jews from a nearby displaced persons camp found their last resting place here in 1946.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES:

• Approximately 1,000 gravestones remain today from a total of about 7,000 to 8,000 graves.

DOCUMENTATION:

• Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.

• Jüdische Friedhöfe in Bayern publ. Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst, Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte.

• Der jüdische Fiedhof von Ichenhausen by Jüdischer Historischer Verein Augsburg.

• Israel Schwierz: Steinerne Zeugnisse jüdischen Lebens in Bayern - refer to Sources below.

• Michael Trüger: Der jüdische Friedhof in Ichenhause, publ. Der Landesverband der Israelitischen. Kultusgemeinden in Bayern. 13. Jahrgang Nr. 76 April 1998, page 13.

NOTES:

• Desecration occurred in May 1929, when some wooden fencing surrounding the cemetery was torn away and 10 gravestones were uprooted. The November pogroms in 1938 left hundreds of gravestones uprooted with many having been broken.

• This partially walled cemetery with two gates is maintained in exemplary condition. During its long history it was extended several times. It is one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in Bavaria.

SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, page 261-264 (Schwierz LBI).

(Researched and translated from German December 2009)

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