Memorial Name
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the Greiffenberg Jewish community
Description:
A rectungular granite stele stads on a stone base. It bears the Star of David, a quote from Genesis 12:3 in Hebrew and German, and a dedicatory text in German.
Inscriptions:
Hebrew:
ויאמר יהוה אל אברם ואברכה מכרכיך
ומקללך אאר ונברבו בך כל משפחת האדמה
Translation: God said to Abram: I will bless those who bless you and curse the one who curses you; and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you [Gen. 12: 3]
German:
Und der Ewige sprach zu Abram:
Ich werde segnen, die dich segnen, und
verfluchen, die dich verfluchen; und
in dir sollen gesegnet werden alle
Geschlechter auf Erden. (I.Mose 12.3)
Zur Erinnerung an die Israelitische Gemeinde
Greiffenberg auf ihrem Friedhof im Gedenken
an die jüdischen Opfer unter dem Faschismus.
1964 von Juden und von Christen errichtet.
Translation: God said to Abram: I will bless those who bless you and curse the one who curses you; and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you [Gen. 12: 3]
In memory of the Jewish community of Greiffenberg, on their cemetery, in memory of the Jewish victims of Fascism. Erected in 1964 by Jews and Christians.
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