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Der Alta Judenfriedhof in Frankfurt A.M. |
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Julius Hulsen |
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Frankfurt am Main |
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Vorstand der Israelitischen Gemeinde |
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1932 |
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This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
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Physical
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Second edition. 16 pp., plates, 235:156 mm., light age staining. A very good copy bound in the original wrappers. |
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This is the second edition of this volume on the gravestones in the old Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt am Main by Julius Hulsen (1873-1931). It contains 13 photographs which are detailed enough so that one may reading the engravings on the headstones. |
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The old Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt am Main was used: 1270 - 1828: Battonnstrasse, located between Battonnstrasse and Rechneigrabenstrasse; 11850 qm; ca.7000 graves; In 1942, the gravestones were piled up and about two thirds of them were demolished. 175 stones of particular historical and artistic interest were moved to the cemetery Rat-Beil-Strasse; after the war, they were returned and (since their original location was unknown) placed along the wall and in a small "fieldof honor", which contains, among others, the gravestones of Meyer Amschel Rothschild and several famous rabbis. The Nazis destroyed many of those graves during WWII. 2,000-2,500 gravestones remain standing as the Nazis were interrupting by allied bombing in the middle of their dirty work. The director of the Historical Museum, a gentile, was able to hide and save 175 gravestones of the most historical and artistic value. From 1725-1774 there were about 9,000 burials so one can note that many of those buried probably had no gravestones; among them children, babies, the poor (including beggars) and strangers (people who had no protection and wandered from one community to another; many were peddlers). From 1828/30 - 1869 all documented information is lost although the graves are still standing at the Rat-Beil-Strasse Cemetery, waiting for funds and someone to do the work.
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http://www.jewish-online.de/Cemeteries.html |
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