DISTRICT: Diepholz.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY:

• Leave Bassum on Sulinger Strasse. Cemetery is a few hundred yards after railroad crossing on the left, adjoining the Wedekamps brickyard.

IN USE: From 1840 until 1937

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 28. There are also 9 memorials dedicated to massgraves of WW2.

DOCUMENTATION:

• 1989/90 photographs of all gravestones with translations of all gravestone inscriptions by Landesverband/Zentralarchiv.
• Full cemetery documentation by Günter Schmidt-Bollmann deposited in Bassum City Archives (Stadtarchiv Bossum).

NOTES:

• This cemetery was spared destruction and vandalism during the Nazi era and has been cared for since 1959 by the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony.
• In addition to 42 old individual Jewish graves, there are also graves holding the remains of WW2 individual Soviet and 46 Polish prisoners of war.

SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 179-183 (DNB).

(Researched and translated from German May 2009)