Formation of t​he gravestones in the Jewish Cemetery.​

​Gravestones, Jewish Cemetery​

 ​Entrance of the small Jewish cemetery.​

​Jewish Cemetery Haaren, Aachen ​ 

​​In November 1938, all the gravestones in the cemetery were knocked over during the Pogrom Night. In 1939, the gravestones lying around were removed from the cemetery. Throughout the Second World War the cemetery grounds, which today are empty, were increasingly destroyed with the gravestones said to have been used as building material at the beginning of the war in 1939. It is assumed that about 40 stones were lost.A few years after the end of the war, in 1948, the cemetery was restored. As there were&nbsp;no longer any recognisable grave sites, the whole cemetery area was redesigned as a place of remembrance. During this clean-up work, an almost undamaged gravestone was found. It belonged to the first grave erected for the Menken couple in 1839.In 1997, further grave monuments were found on a private property. One year later, four stones and about 70 fragments were put together to form a memorial wall in the cemetery.​Today, this cemetery is part of "Ways Against Forgetting 1933-1945", a project to commemorate the atrocities of the National Socialists in Aachen.​

Cmentarz żydowski Haaren

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