LOCATION OF CEMETERY: I. Hamburger Strasse
IN USE: From 1782 until 1916 (previous older burial ground - Am Wendentor).
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 513 gravestones, about 700 graves.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1989/1990: photographs and translations of all gravestone and inscriptions by Landesverband - Zentralarchiv . Copies of photographs and grave register, latter as card index, at the office of the Jewish Community in Braunschweig.
PUBLICATIONS:
- Ebeling, Hans-Heinrich: Die Juden in Brauschweig. Rechts- Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte von den Anfängen der Jüdischen Gemeinde bis zur Emanzipation (1282-1848). Braunschweig1987, pages 225f and 370 (LBI).
- History by Schulze 2003, pages 4-8. Peter Schulze Collection (LBI).
- Reinhard Bein: Juden in Braunschweig 1900 - 1945 pub. 1983 Braunschweig : Dr. Döring.pages 43-44 (DNB)
NOTES:
- The initially small Jewish community at first used the burial grounds of the Wolfenbüttel or occasionally also that of the Halberstadt communities.
- This cemetery was protected against vandalism by a wall.
- Vandalism was reported to have taken place in 1956, 1957 and 1978.
- The cemetery is in the ownership of the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony since 1959.
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg, Alemannia Judaica and Historisches Handbuch, pages 257-306 (DNB)
LOCATION OF CEMETERY: II. Helmstedter Strasse 40, 38126
IN USE: From 1914 until the present.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 260 graves.
DOCUMENTATION:
- 1989/1990 photographs and translations of all gravestone and inscriptions by Landesverband/Zentralarchiv. Copies of photographs and grave register, latter as card index, the office of the Jewish Community in Braunschweig.
PUBLICATIONS:
- History by Schulze 2003, pages 9-15. Peter Schulze Collection (LBI).
- Bein, Reinhard: Juden in Braunschweig 1900 - 1945 pub. 1983 Braunschweig : Dr. Döring pages 45-52. (DNB).
NOTE:
- A memorial in memory of victims of the Jewish community of Braunschweig of the Nazy tyranny was erected in 1966
- Vandalism was reported to have taken place in 1987.
- The cemetery is in the ownership of the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony since 1959.
SOURCES: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 257-306 (DNB)
(Researched and translated May 2009)