Jewish Cemetery Weißensee

The Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee is the largest remaining Jewish cemetery in Europe, with around 115,000 graves.

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The Jewish Cemetery Weißensee is now an almost 100-acre site containing over 115,000 gravesites.
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Entrance area of the Jewish Cemetery Berlin-Weißensee.
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Cemetery of the Jewish Community in Berlin-Weißensee.
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Silent prayer at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weißensee.
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Stones and pebbles were placed on a gravestone in the Jewish Cemetery, a gesture meant to honor the dead.
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A cantor of the Jewish Community in Berlin stands before the memorial to the 395 fallenGerman soldiers of Jewish faith of the First World War who were buried there.
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The gravestone of Charlotte and Leopold Jacob at the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee. The couple's joint date of death is inscribed as May 21, 1940. The Jacobs are among the thousands of Jewish citizens in Berlin who went to their deaths in despair during the Nazi regime.
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A stone was placed on a gravestone in the Jewish Cemetery, a gesture meant to honor the dead.
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Unknown persons vandalized more than 100 gravestones in the Jewish Cemetery in October 1999. Here, Rabbi Errenberg looks at the rows of graves blocked with toppled gravestones. At a silent memorial, the names of those whose graves had been desecrated were then read.
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Soldiers of the German Armed Forces and reservists have been regularly maintaining parts of the Jewish Cemetery for years.
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November 06, 2003: During a student project for the 65th anniversary of the Reichsprogromnacht, young people maintained parts of the cemetery.
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Soldiers help with the maintenance of the Jewish Cemetery.
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Soldiers maintain the cemetery of the Israelite Synagogue Adass Yisroel on Wittlicher Straße.
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Memorial stone commemorating the members of the Jewish community who died in the First World War.
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At the memorial of Jewish German soldiers killed in World War I at the Jewish Cemetery (June 03, 2010). As part of the program "Witnesses in Uniform" of the Israeli Embassy, a central memorial ceremony with a wreath-laying ceremony was held. About 180 officers participated in the program of the Israeli Embassy.