Jüdischer Friedhof Segeroth in Essen

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Overview

Essen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
19th century
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Essen

Location

Desecration History

Total Desecrations

Last incident: 1988

Total Classifications

Most Common: destruction (75%)

1988
destruction
Unknown perpetrators damaged gravestones and devastated gravesites. The Essen Jewish community filed a complaint.
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Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
1984
destruction
Unknown perpetrators systematically devastated the cemetery. Among other things, they toppled 60 gravestones.
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01
Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
April 29, 1982
destruction
Unknown perpetrators toppled ten children’s gravestones, between 50 and 70 cm in size. Contemporaries suspected children as the perpetrators.
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01
Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
August 26, 1969 – September 15, 1969
destruction
Youths toppled 31 gravestones, mostly small ones.
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Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
02
Adolf Diamant, Geschändete jüdische Friedhöfe in Deutschland 1945–1999. Mit einem Vorwort von Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam 2000
June 12, 1968 – July 6, 1968
destruction
Unknown perpetrators, presumably teenagers or schoolchildren, toppled 56 gravestones.
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Adolf Diamant, Geschändete jüdische Friedhöfe in Deutschland 1945–1999. Mit einem Vorwort von Julius H. Schoeps, Potsdam 2000
02
Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
May 12, 1966
destruction
Unknown perpetrators toppled four gravestones.
Sources
01
Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
February 13, 1959
defacement
right-wing extremist
Unknown perpetrators again smeared a gravestone with a black swastika.
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01
Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung
February 8, 1959
defacement
right-wing extremist
Unknown perpetrators smeared two gravestones with swastikas and SS runes in red paint.
Sources
01
Stadtarchiv Essen, Akten der Friedhofsverwaltung

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Net Olam. (2025). Jüdischer Friedhof Segeroth in Essen. Retrieved from http://localhost/en/cemeteries/juedischer-friedhof-segeroth-in-essen