Where is moses mendelssohn buried

Central Intelligence Agency. He concluded that Mueller was dead and traced the corpse to the historic Jewish cemetery dating from the 17th century, where the Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn was also buried. The cemetery was desecrated by the Nazis and became the site of 16 mass graves for more than 2, people who died in Allied air raids and the fall of Berlin.

It is now a Jewish memorial. On the neighbouring property, long after the cemetery had been closed, the Jewish community opened its home for the aged in For those who survived the Holocaust in Berlin , Grosse Hamburger Strasse remained a synonym for deportation and death, until the aforementioned Jewish school was reopened there in A bombing raid destroyed the home for the aged during the last days of the war, in A memorial serves as a reminder of the unfathomable events of those years.

In , a sculptural group of figures by Will Lammert was installed next to the memorial stone. Copyright by Nicolai Verlag. Open 8 images in the gallery. Hours Summer: In the cemetery was returned to the Jewish community. Part of the site was converted to a public park in the s. From to , the site was altered again and tidied up so that the cemetery area could be seen again.

You can combine your visit to the former cemetery with other sites of Jewish history in Berlin. Not far from the cemetery are the Anne Frank Zentrum and the Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt , where every Sunday there are free guided tours of the original rooms where the broom maker Weidt hid his blind and deaf Jewish employees from the Nazis. There is a digital guide to help you discover the historic Jewish cemeteries: use a QR code for information in German or English on the history of the cemeteries and the notable people buried there.

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