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The capital city of South Africa's Free State Province (formerly Orange Free State Province) and the judicial capital of South Africa, located in the center of the country. Source for all of Bloemfontein is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., London UK

Database [Aug 2015]

The Old Cemetery:

Over 1,000 names from the three cemeteries. Old: {10677}. The oldest of the three cemeteries, dating from 1871, is simply a small fenced off area of a public cemetery near the city center. It includes a few graves of several Jewish pioneers involved in the early days of the city who died serving on either side in the Boer War, 1899-1902. Each of the thirty or so tombstones of these pioneer families has been completely transcribed. Some of the gravestones are in poor condition; and some graves now are unmarked.

Jewish Cemetery (old) at Memoriam Cemetery [June 2014]

South Park: .

This cemetery was consecrated in 1978 and now includes about 100 graves. Further information may be sought from the Secretary of the United Hebrew Institutions of Bloemfontein, 1 Dickie Clark ST., P.O. Box 1152, Bloemfontein 9301; fax Internat +27(51) 536 6447. Memorial {10679}

Name?: Dates from 1903 and includes some 1,100 burials, mostly Litvaks or their first generation descendents. The graves are well maintained despite recent politically motivated vandalism. [date?]

Jewish Cemetery (new) at South Park Cemetery [June 2014]