Obj. ID: 34243
Memorials Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Pitești, Romania
To the main object: Jewish cemetery in Pitești, Romania
The inscription states that soap made of Jewish dead bodies by the Germans is buried there. Similar “soap graves” could be found in many cemeteries in Romania, e.g. in Braila.
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Holocaust Memorial in the Jewish cemetery in Pitești | Unknown
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During WWII, the legend was spread that the Nazi Germany made soap with the stamp 'RUF' from the bodies of Holocaust victims. Starting from 1944, 'RIF' soap was buried by Jews in cemeteries all over the world in memory of Holocaust victims. Yad Vashem turned down the legend in 1990. Romania most probably has more ‘Jewish soap’ graves than the rest of the world. [Neander, 27]
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Sources
Neander, Joachim, Symbolically burying the six million’: post-war soap burial in Romania, Bulgaria and Brazil,” Human Remains & Violence, Volume 2, No. 1 (2016), 23–40, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301933744_%27Symbolically_burying_the_six_million%27_post-war_soap_burial_in_Romania_Bulgaria_and_Brazil (accessed August 25, 2024)
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