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Point of Interests im Nationalpark Eifel

06 Jüdischer Friedhof

Jewish Cemetery

For many years, there were no tensions between the Christian majority and the Jewish families in the town.

The Jewish citizens used as a cemetery a triangular plot in „Ruppenberg“, which the community had bought from the town in 1865. In 1944, the plot was expropriated, but in 1951 returned to its rightful owners.

A memorial stone at the entrance to the old Jewish cemetery commemorates thirteen murdered Jews from Schleiden who were victims of the Holocaust. There are now only a few gravestones in the cemetery which bear witness to the former Jewish community in the town.

06 Jüdischer Friedhof
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