Project number: [JOWBR, GERM-06471]

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The Wiesbaden Friedhof Cemetery in WIESBADEN, GERMANY

After the end of World War II United States military authorities made an effort to identify Jews who, while not necessarily deported or sent to concentration camps, had died within Germany. Since most Jewish cemeteries inside Germany had not been destroyed, they compiled lists of Jews who had perished there during the Nazi time. (They were not interested in earlier deaths). One of these lists was for the Jewish cemetery in Wiesbaden. A copy of this list, with 124 names, was acquired by the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen. The ITS document number is 78827468.

The history of the Wiesbaden Jewish cemetery is unusual in one respect. On learning that they were to report for deportation the following day, a group went together to the cemetery to commit suicide there.

The fact that a person was buried in Wiesbaden (or any other Jewish cemetery in Germany) does not mean that he/she died in that locality.  It was common in the case of deaths of German Jews in concentration camps to cremate the bodies and send the ashes to their former place of residence for burial. 

The database was fragmentary and I have supplemented information such as maiden names and places of birth from other sources.