DISTRICT: Cuxhaven.

LOCATION OF CEMETERY:

• off Holzurburger Strasse (L117) turn left at small road Beim Judenfriedhof - Am Kleinen Holz.

IN USE: From 1754 until 1902.

NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 8.

DOCUMENTATION:

• Copies of German gravestone inscriptions (1980). Photographs (1985), mapping of graves (1980 and in 1997) by Kreisheimatmuseum Osterholz.

PUBLICATIONS:

• History by Beplate 1979, pages 237 and 247.

NOTE:

• The cemetery was vandalised during the Nazi era, gravestones toppled and some smashed. Of about 30 of visible burial mounds 8 still have their gravestones. The cemetery was restored in 1955 and has been in the ownership of the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony since 1960. It is cared for by local schools.

SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 184-187 (DNB).

(Researched and translated from German May 2009).