Obj. ID: 55774
Funerary Art Memorial to the destoryed tombstones in the Jewish Cemetery in Salzburg, Austria, 1993
To the main object: Jewish Cemetery in Salzburg, Austria
Memorial Name
No official name
Who/What is Commemorated?
Tombstones destroyed during the Holocaust.
Description:
Three upright stones stand at the entrance to the cemetery, on the right-hand side of the central pathway. Each stone has a bronze plaque. The central one informs, in German, about the expropriation of the cemetery and lists 27 names of Jews, whose tombstones were sold and disappeared. The left stone bears 42 names and the fight one - 41 names.
The artist's signature appears in the lower right of the central stone.
Inscription:
Dieser Friedhof wurde 1939 im 3. Reich
enteignet Stadt und Land Salzburg
wollen mit diesen Tafeln ein Erinne-
rungszeichen dür die entfernten
Grabsteine setzen.
Translation: This cemetery was expropriated in 1939 in the Third Reich. The city and state of Salzburg want to set these plaques as a memorial to the removed gravestones.
Commissioned by
The city and state of Salzburg
sub-set tree: 
Wiener
After the Nazi invasion in March 1938, the Jewish cemetery was confiscated and declared "anthropologically unimportant" by the responsible state conservator. In 1940, the Nazi authorities sold it to the former cemetery caretaker Maria Frenkenberger, who used the cemetery grounds as pastureland and the mortuary as a stable for her cows and pigs. She also sold 68 of the 100 gravestones.
In August 1945, the US occupying forces declared the previous transaction to Mrs. Frenkenberger invalid and handed the burial site over to the re-established religious community in 1946, which restored the largely destroyed and dilapidated cemetery.
The memorial was installed by the City of Salzburg in 1993, before a visit by former Salzburg Jews.
https://www.marterl.at/suche/detail-1?oid=4775&cHash=75083d955cdce90ce0d2e16648bedadd
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCdischer_Friedhof_Salzburg