AACHEN: 52062-52080 Northrhine-Westphalia (Gerz, Peters)
LÜTTICHERSTRASSE:
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- History by Penuel 1984 (Menorah, 4-part series).
- History: Aachen 1992, pages. 54 - 57.
- Burial register by Dieter Peters 1993, pages 75 - 99.
- History: Rheinland 1992, pages. 29 - 31.
- History by Lepper 1994 volume 1, pages. 17, 48 - 49.
- History by Pracht 1997, pages 31 - 33, 43 - 46.
- History, list of graves by Dieter Peters 2001, pages. 9 - 53.
- The few Jews living in Aachen had no cemetery of their own prior to the 19th century. They buried their dead in Düren (old cemetery) or in the nearby cemetery in VAALS in the Netherlands.
- The Lütticher Straße cemetery survived the Nazi period in relatively good condition apart from one hit during a bombing attack in WW2.
LOCATION: Lütticher Str. 39.
IN USE: acquired 1822 - oldest gravestone dated 1829. Cemetery extended in 1865 and 1878.
NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 800 (Pracht 1997), 1229 ( Peters: letter dated 1st January 2001).
PUBLICATIONS:
NOTES:
SOURCE: University of Heidelberg.
WALDFRIEDHOF WAR CEMETERY
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- 1991 -1993 by Dieter Peters (Burial register).
- 1993 - 2000 by Dieter Peters (30 photographs of gravestones and cemetery views).
LOCATION: Waldfriedhof: Monschauer Strasse - Jewish section set apart from non-Jewish part
IN USE: from 1914 - 1918. Contains the graves of 16 Jewish Soldiers who died during WW1.
DOCUMENTATION: PUBLICATIONS: SOURCE: University of Heidelberg.
NEW CEMETERY in HUELS (HÜLS).
[translated from German December 2007]
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