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Coat of arms of Bochum 51°29' N, 07°13' E, in the Ruhr area, 40 miles NNE of Köln (Cologne), between Essen and Dortmund. This city  is surrounded by the cities of Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Witten and Hattingen. On November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, the Jewish citizens of Bochum were attacked. The synagogue was set on fire with rioting against Jewish citizens. The first Jews from Bochum were deported to Nazi concentration camps with many Jewish institutions and homes destroyed. About 500 Jewish citizens (by name) were killed in the Holocaust, including nineteen younger than 16 years old. Wikipedia. [Sep 2012]

44789 North Rhine-Westphalia Wattenscheid, Stiepel (Gerz)

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Address: Mass mountain road before Buddenbergtor on the road to Witten called Buddenberg road today. Used 17/18th century - 1821, mentioned in 1722 documents. No gravestones. In 1879 the synagogue sold the land and transferred burials to the cemetery Bochum New Cemetery. In the course of closing down in 1954, after Bochum (waterway). Of the many old gravestones, only two are at Wilbertz.
- History in Wilbertz 1987 , pp. 3-15, 23

- History in Bochum, 1997 , pp. 42 - 44

- History in Wilbertz 1987 , pp. 9-17, 24
- History in Bochum, 1997 , pp. 45 - 47

Jüdischer Friedhof Bochumer Straße, Used 1884 - 1918, closed in 1954. no gravestones. The Nazis vandalized the cemetery. Wilbertz suspects the loss of approximately one-third of the former gravestones. In 1954, the gravestones and burials were moved to the Waterway Cemetery.

After the war, they forced former Nazi leaders to clear the cemetery grounds by hand. Of the remote in the Nazi era 21 grave stones were seized as a mason and subsequently placed on the reconstructed cemetery again. A 22nd Grave stone was made retrospectively. 1972 by the City Wattenscheid a memorial stone in the cemetery was established.
- History in Wilbertz 1987 , pp. 10 - 20, 25, 27
- History in Bochum, 1997 , pp. 46 - 47

- History in Wilbertz 1987 , pp. 17 - 25, 26
- History in Westphalia-Lippe 1987 , p.27
- Full documentation in Bochum 1997, pp. 47, 49, 54 - 70, 74 - 254

Jewish community of Bochum-Herne-Hattingen to get a new cemetery because the land along the waterway is now fully occupied. As a location, the city has a 15,000 square meter area in the eastern part of the main cemetery in view. [Sep 2012]

 

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