DISTRICT: Urban District.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Cemetery entrance on the left at the end of Phillip-Melanchthon-Strasse (Detail).

IN USE: From 1927 and still used today by the present Jewish community.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: Many old stones, also many post 1945 period.

DOCUMENTATION:

• Numerous individual gravestone photographs and general cemetery views in Alemannia Judaica.

PUBLICATIONS:

• In Schwierz - refer to Sources below.
• Norbert Flach: Spurensicherung : Amberg und der Landkreis unter dem Hakenkreuz publ. Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes- Bund der Antifaschisten, Kreisverband Amberg-Sulzbach, Frankfurt (Main): VAS-Verlag fuer Akademische Schriften, 1993, 155 pages, ill. (LBI).

NOTES:

• This cemetery contains the graves of 16 Nazi concentration camp victims.

SOURCE: Alemannia Judaica and Schwierz, page 282 (LBI).

(Researched and translated from German July 2009)