Jewish Cemetery Memorial surrounded by stones with names of Concentration camps,Herbert Baum Strasse,Weissensee,Pankow,Berlin,German

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Jewish Cemetery Memorial surrounded by stones with names of Concentration camps,Herbert Baum Strasse,Weissensee,Pankow,Berlin,Germany. Weißensee Cemetery was designed by German architect Hugo Licht in the Italian Neo Renaissance style and inaugurated in exterior walls and main building were constructed in yellow brick. There is a Holocaust Memorial at the entrance consisting of a commemorative stone, surrounded by stones, each with the names of concentration camps With the rise of Nazism the existence of the cemetery was at risk but the site survived relatively unscathed - 4000 graves are estimated to have been damaged by Allied bombing during WW2. Between 1955 and German reunification in 1990, only the small Jewish community in East

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Location: Herbert Baum Strasse, Weissensee,Pankow,Berlin,Germany
Photo credit: © Eden Breitz / Alamy / Afripics
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