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  Memorial to resistance fighters at the cemetery chapel at the Weißensee cemetery in Berlin, 2009

© Beit Tfila Research Unit, Photographer: Kessler, Katrin, 2023

Name of Monument

No official name

What/Who is commemorated? 

Participants in the liberation from National Socialism buried in the Weissensee Cemetery

Description

A bronze plaque is affixed to the front of a grey granite boulder.

Inscriptions

In German:

WIR ERINNERN AN ALLE
FRAUEN UND MANNER
DIE AKTIV AN DER BEFREIUNG
VOM NATIONALSOZIALISMUS
TEILGENOMMEN HABEN
UND AUF DIESEM FRIEDHOF
BEIGESETZT SIND.

 JÜDISCHE GEMEINDE ZU BERLIN

SEPTEMBER 2009

Translation: We remember all women and men who actively participated in the liberation from National Socialism and are buried in this cemetery.  Jewish Community in Berlin September 2009.

Commissioned by

Jewish Community in Berlin

Summary and Remarks
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Name/Title
Memorial to resistance fighters at the cemetery chapel at the Weißensee cemetery in Berlin | Unknown
Object Detail
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Date
2009
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Location
Germany | Berlin (Bundesland) | Berlin
| Weißensee Cemetery (Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee) Herbert-Baum-Straße 45
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History/Provenance

An identical plaque can be found in the Heerstrasse Jewish Cemetery (Scholzplatz).

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Sources

“Widerstandskämpferinnen und -kämpfer,” Gedenktafeln in Berlin., https://www.gedenktafeln-in-berlin.de/gedenktafeln/detail/widerstandskaempfer/2492 (accessed May 13, 2024)
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Documenter
Kessler, Katrin | 2023
Author of description
Samuel D. Gruber | 2024
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