The archaeological remains discovered in 1909 on this site have been transferred to the Notre-Dame de France guest house where father Germer-Durand created a museum. During the 1948 war, bombs hurt the southern wing of the building and destroyed . . . — — Map (db m222071) HM
On this site was a temporary prison in which members of the Jewish underground forces were detained for questioning. Amongst those detained were Betar and I.Z.L members who blew the shofar at the Western Wall at the close of Yom Kippur. — — Map (db m220144) HM
[Hebrew not transcribed]
In 1740 The first Jewish hostel in Jaffa
was established here
which included a synagogue and a mikve
The synagogue re-opened in 1948
by Libyan Jews is still in use — — Map (db m209610) HM
Monumento Conmemorativo a los 100 años de Inmigración Judía a México El corazón del inmigrante es tan voluble como el mar sobre la arena: se hincha con el deseo de alcanzar lo que está por venir, hasta que la fuerza de ese deseo se . . . — — Map (db m135893) HM
(Dutch:)
Oudste sporen van Joods leven in Vaals
De oudste sporen van Joods leven in Vaals gaan zeker terug tot 1737, het jaar waarin gewag gemaakt
wordt van een Joodse inwoonster, die toen aanwezig was bij de inwijding . . . — — Map (db m240378) HM
De Joodse Invalide
Architecten H. Elte (1880-1944) en J.F. Staal (1879-1940)
Opdrachtgever Vereniging De Joodsche Invalide
Bouwjaren 1925 en 1936-1937
Dit moderne verzorgingstehuis van architect
J.F. Staal . . . — — Map (db m229067) HM
aan allen die tijdens de duitse
bezetting hebben geholpen
joodse kinderen voor
deportie te behoeden
1940 1945
-
(English translation:)
To all those who helped to protect Jewish children from . . . — — Map (db m120826) WM
Ter Gedachtenis
Aan het bestuur, leden
en kinderen dezer speel
tuinafdeling die in de
jaren 1940-1945 werden
gedeporteerd en niet
terugkeerden
(English translation:)
In remembrance of the leaders, . . . — — Map (db m214797) WM
Dit was de plaats waar zij de eeuwige en elkaar ontmoetten.
tot ze so maar weg waren
29 april 1942
voormalige synagoge 1840-1942
(English translation:)
This was the place where they met the eternal . . . — — Map (db m214834) HM WM
Tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog hebben
de laatst overgebleven Haagse joodse leerlingen hier van mei tot september 1943 les gekregen.
During the Second World War the last remaining Jewish schoolchildren in The Hague were . . . — — Map (db m222862) HM
Indachtig
10.000
Joodse
inwoners
van
Rotterdam
Met dit monument bij de entree
tot het stadhuis herdenken de
bevolking en het gemeentebestuur
van Rotterdam
de vele stadgenoten die slachtoffer
werden van de . . . — — Map (db m244883) WM
Hier stond het israëlietisch weeshuis;
in gebruik genomen in 1898 en
op 26 februari 1943 ontruimd door
de duitse bezetter. (English translation:)
Here stood the Jewish Orphanage; in use from 1898 until cleared . . . — — Map (db m244069) HM
Op deze plaats
stond het gesticht
voor israeliëtische
oude lieden
Op 26 februari 1943 ontruimd door
de duitse bezetter. (English translation:)
At this location stood the Jewish Old Age Home. . . . — — Map (db m244080) HM
Jewish Rest, also known as the Old Hebrew Burial Ground, is the oldest Jewish cemetery in Alabama. The land was purchased on June 22, 1841 by the congregation of Sha'arai Shomayim Umaskil el Dol of the Needy), Alabama's first and longest . . . — — Map (db m212911) HM
In honor of
the Arizonans of
the Jewish faith
who gave their lives
in the service
of our country in World War II
In Memoriam
Sgt. Leno Off April, 1943 • Sgt. Eli Gold - Dec. 29, 1943 • Sgt. Elmer I. Rosner - July 8, 1944 • Lt. Harry . . . — — Map (db m27677) HM
On September 18, 1857, Congregation B’nai Israel of Jackson dedicated on this site the first synagogue in the Mother Lode. High holiday worship continued until 1869 when the larger Masonic Hall was used to accommodate the congregation. The wooden . . . — — Map (db m100588) HM
Thousands of Jewish emigrants escaping religious persecution and economic oppression in Germany and Eastern Europe joined the Gold Rush to California.
They brought with them a strong work ethic and religious conviction. These settlers were . . . — — Map (db m61497) HM
The Hebrew Benevolent Society of Los Angeles (1854), first charitable organization in the city, acquired this site from the city council by deed of April 9, 1855. This purchase of a sacred burial ground represented the first organized community . . . — — Map (db m122688) HM
Dedicated to all American who offered their lives in support of freedom throughout the world.
Dedicated February 24, 2003 by Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A., LCDR Ben Dobris Post 750, Palm Springs.
Donated By Wiefels & Son Funeral . . . — — Map (db m206278) WM
In a second floor room in a store which stood on this location, forty pioneers of Jewish faith gathered on Yom Kippur (5610) September 26, 1849, and participated in the first Jewish religious services in San Francisco.
State Registered Landmark . . . — — Map (db m40514) HM
Jewish Community Center
1926
Stockton’s “Architect Laureate” Glen Allen designed this culturally important edifice. Built by Louis S. Peletz, it served the Stockton Jewish community and Temple Israel until 1964 when purchased by the . . . — — Map (db m103028) HM
This building, once known as the Morrow Building, symbolizes the founding of an organized Jewish community in Delaware. Jews have been present in Delaware since the 1650's. Until the late 19th Century, the Jewish community was too small to maintain . . . — — Map (db m166679) HM
תנצב״ח
Eternal witnesses of man's need for the world brotherhood
Nathan H. Arenson •
Nathan Balick •
Arthur M. Blatman •
Nathan Blume •
Morton Carlis •
Herman Cohen •
Charles Edelberg • . . . — — Map (db m174916) WM
Memorial Garden Light
Sponsored by Mathew Millen
In Memory of WWII Veterans
1Lt. Edith Millen •
1Lt. Louis Millen •
Sgt. Max S. Millen
National Museum of American Jewish Military . . . — — Map (db m236367) WM
Jewish families in Pensacola began organized worship following the Civil War. On this site in 1876 a Reform Jewish Synagogue was constructed. The State of Florida granted a charter in 1878 for Congregation Beth El. Temple Beth El joined the Union of . . . — — Map (db m134326) HM
Medal of Honor Recipients
of the Jewish Faith
Benjamin Levy 3-1865 • Abraham Cohn 8-1865 • Leopoldo Karpeles 4-1870 • Simon Suhler 11-1876 • David Orbansky 8-1879 • Samuel Gross 5-1917 • Sydney G. Gumpertz 2-1919 • Benjamin Kaufman . . . — — Map (db m198455) WM
On this site, June 18, 1964, sixteen Jewish clergy
marching in protest for civil rights at the request of
the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
were arrested in the largest mass arrest
of rabbis in United States history.
St. . . . — — Map (db m153728) HM
Near this site on July 11, 1733, five months
after Oglethorpe founded Georgia, 42 Jewish
colonists, having sailed from London,
disembarked from the William and Sarah.
It was the largest group of Jews ever to sail
on one vessel from . . . — — Map (db m26707) HM
Established by Mordecai Sheftall on August 2, 1773 from lands granted him in 1762 by King George III as a parcel of land that "shall be, and forever remain, to and for the use and purpose of a Place of Burial for all persons whatever professing the . . . — — Map (db m14471) HM
Since Biblical times when Abraham purchased land to bury his wife Sarah, it has been considered a religious obligation for Jews to set aside land for interring their dead. Often before congregations were established burial societies were formed to . . . — — Map (db m57359) HM
Side 1:
The earliest recorded Jewish burials in Columbus were in historic Linwood Cemetery and in the Raphael Moses family cemetery, Esquiline. When the City of Columbus established Riverdale Cemetery in 1890, Temple Israel purchased a . . . — — Map (db m22943) HM
On this site stood, in 1851, the
first Jewish house of worship
in the State of Illinois
and the middle Northwest.
Kehlath Anshe Mayriv
Congregation Men of the West
Now known as K.A.M. Temple
Established 1847
Dedicated by the
Jewish . . . — — Map (db m134416) HM
Jewish War Veterans of the United States — Department of Illinois
To all who served our country at home or on foreign soil
May they rest in peace
Yarmo ☆ DeVere
Post No. 469
Department of Illinois
In memoriam
Commemorative . . . — — Map (db m245291) WM
Hebrew Society of Brotherly Love of South Bend established Jewish cemetery on this site 1859. First Jewish families settling in a new community typically organized a burial society before establishing a formal congregation. Before Civil War era, . . . — — Map (db m2759) HM
The Temple was created in 1976 by uniting Reform congregations Adath Israel and Brith Sholom. Adath Israel was chartered by Kentucky in 1842; it was the oldest Jewish congregation in Ky., 7th Reform in U.S., a founder of Union of American Hebrew . . . — — Map (db m161986) HM
Rebecca Rosenthal Judah
1866-1932
Rebecca Rosenthal Judah organized the National Council of Jewish Women, Louisville Section, and served as their president from 1896 to 1910. She worked to win women's right to vote and was also vice . . . — — Map (db m162000) HM
The Hebrew Benevolent Assn. of Shreveport purchased a quarter acre of Oakland Cemetery from the city in July, 1858. The resulting Jewish cemetery was Shreveport's first and Louisiana's fifth. This cemetery was used exclusively from 1858-1886 and . . . — — Map (db m139944) HM
Gemiluth Chassodim Synagogue was admitted to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2014 as a notable example of the post-war architectural style known as Mid-Century Modern. It was designed by a member of the Congregation, . . . — — Map (db m124030) HM
The earliest known Jewish settler in the Alexandria-Pineville area was Henry Michael Hyams, whose name appears in the 1830 census. The earliest grave marker identifiable on this site tells that Augusta Bernstein, daughter of Samuel Bernstein, was . . . — — Map (db m38329) HM
Jacob Cousins Post 99, Jewish War Veterans of the USA, honors the memory of Maine's Jewish Fallen Heroes in the two great wars.
World War I Fallen Heroes, 1917 - 1918
Jacob Cousins, Portland •
Arthur Goldstein, Portland •
John A. . . . — — Map (db m204566) WM
In memory of
Portland's Jewish War Heroes
who died in World War II action
1941 - 1945
Samuel M. Citrin • Benjamin A. Cox •
Edward R. Goldstein • Louis S. Lane •
Herbert F. Meyers • Sidney R. Miller •
Max Weinstein
This . . . — — Map (db m186388) WM
Dedicated to all Jewish men and women of Maryland who served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America during War and Peace.
—
American Revolution
Civil War
Spanish-American War
World War I
World War II
Korea . . . — — Map (db m131335) WM
Ezekiel Solomon, a native of Berlin, Germany, who had served with the British army, arrived at Michilimackinac in the summer of 1761.
He is Michigan’s first known resident of the Jewish faith.
Solomon was one of the most active Mackinac fur . . . — — Map (db m107159) HM
West Michigan Summer Resorts
After the American Civil War (1861-1865) a new wealthy class arose with the time and means to escape the grime of industrialized cities for the summer “Season.” In the 1870s the Little Traverse Bay region became . . . — — Map (db m182951) HM
At this site the first Jewish cemetery in Michigan was established in 1848-49. The Jews Society of Ann Arbor acquired burial rights to this land adjacent to what was then the public cemetery. Several years earlier, immigrants from Germany and . . . — — Map (db m127346) HM
Near this site, in 1850, a small group of German-Jewish immigrants gathered at the home of Isaac and Sarah Cozens and formed the Bet El Society. Here Marcus Cohen, a layman, conducted the first Jewish religious service in Detroit. The following . . . — — Map (db m174196) HM
Beth El, the first Jewish congregation in Michigan, was organized in Detroit on September 22, 1850, by 12 families. This half-acre cemetery, dedicated on January 1, 1851, was known then as “The Champlain Street Cemetery of Temple Beth El” because . . . — — Map (db m180884) HM
Chapman Abraham
During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), the British took Canada from France and with it possession of French forts in the western Great Lakes region, including Detroit. The post remained an important center of trade . . . — — Map (db m33485) HM
900 Marginal. 1870. Although Jewish families have played an important role in Port Gibson life since the 1830's, burials were made in the Jewish cemetery in Natchez prior to 1870. — — Map (db m139180) HM
Front
Rabbi Perry Nussbaum came to Beth Israel in 1954 and was an important voice for racial justice. Working with diverse ministers, he helped found the Committee of Concern, raising money for black churches burned by the Klan. In 1967, . . . — — Map (db m133848) HM
Jewish merchants contributed greatly to Meridian's growth. The Grand Opera House (MSU Riley Center) and the Threefoot Building stand as evidence of their business success. Although Jews were well accepted in Meridian, their support of Civil Rights . . . — — Map (db m111054) HM
Commemorating the establishment of the first Jewish settlement in America at New Amsterdam in 1654
[Rededication plaque from 1989]
Dedicated initially in November 1956, The Lucy and Stanley Lopata Plaza, commemorating the . . . — — Map (db m219544) HM
The Jewish cemetery is located a few miles north of where you stand. It was the norm for organizations to have separate cemeteries. However the commonalities of the Comstock population are of more significance than separatism. Like their neighbors, . . . — — Map (db m134333) HM
Dedicated to the memory of the
men and women of Jewish faith
who gave their lives in the
service of their country.
Placed in their memory by the
Lt. James I. Platt Post No. 651
Jewish War Veterans
of the United States
August 19, . . . — — Map (db m63528) WM
The Jewish Agricultural Society founded an agri-industrial community here in the 1930s on land purchased by Gabriel Davidson. Backed by the Baron deHirsch, the program enabled Jewish families to poultry farm while maintaining jobs in New York and . . . — — Map (db m165715) HM
Long Branch Post 316
Jewis War Veterans
of the USA
through whose efforts
Oceanpointe Towers was erected
dedicates this site
in honor of the men and women who have served in our nation's armed forces and in memory of those who made . . . — — Map (db m209106) HM WM
First Jewish place of worship in Morristown incorporated 1899. Present center, housing synagogue, chapel, Hebrew school and related organizations built by descendants of original congregation. — — Map (db m32673) HM
The Rochester Jewish community
provided for their burial
"All are equal before God"
Rabbi Gamaliel
May their souls be bound up
in the bond of eternal life
[Dedicated] August 2007
'ת' ג' צ' . . . — — Map (db m239876) HM
[Top (Torah)panel:]
Dedicated to our comrades
of the Jewish faith who have
patriotically fought in
all our country's battles
with honor and valor
for our greatest gift
Liberty and Shalom
[Front panel:]
Jewish . . . — — Map (db m106319) WM
By the early 1900's Fifth Avenue facing Central Park was lined with magnificent homes. This building is one of the few surviving residences from this period, and an exceptional example of a chateau in the French Gothic style. Designed by C.P.H. . . . — — Map (db m183152) HM
Erected by the State of New York to honor the memory of the twenty three men women & children who landed in September 1654 and founded the first Jewish community in North America — — Map (db m127855) HM
This tablet marks the remains of
The First Jewish Cemetery in the United States
consecrated in the year 1656 when it was described as “outside the city”
During the War of the Revolution it was fortified by the patriots as one . . . — — Map (db m125826) HM
On November 17, 2015, the United States Department of the Interior officially named this site to the National Register of Historic Places. From the 1880s through the 1930s, 1200 Jewish farmers lived on over 250 homesteads in North Dakota - the . . . — — Map (db m103862) HM
Unlike most of their Jewish brethren who remained on or near the East Coast in big cities, these first-time farmers boarded trains to "The Great Northwest," staking their claims 20 years after McInstosh County was opened for homesteading. They . . . — — Map (db m103863) HM
The Garden of Peace is a gift to the people of Cincinnati from the Jewish community; in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the State of Israel. This exhibit enables visitors to step back in time and relive history during the biblical period. . . . — — Map (db m201189) HM
The Clifton location of Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati was founded in 1848, as a resting place for deceased members of Congregation Ahabath Achim, an Orthodox Jewish congregation that later merged with Shearith Israel, and then with Isaac . . . — — Map (db m187352) HM
Hebrew Union College (HUC), founded in Cincinnati in 1875, is the oldest institution of higher Jewish learning in the United States. Its founder, Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise (1819-1900), was a leading proponent of Reform Judaism in America. In 1950, the . . . — — Map (db m24847) HM
Dr. Jacob Rader Marcus (1896-1995), pioneering historian of the American Jew, founded the American Jewish Archives (AJA) in Cincinnati in 1947. In the aftermath of World War II and the brutal destruction of European Jewry, Marcus anticipated the . . . — — Map (db m24849) HM
Nathan Rapoport (1911-1987) began his career in Poland, where he won a scholarship to study art in France and Italy. When the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, Rapoport, who was Jewish, fled to Russian controlled territory, where he worked briefly in . . . — — Map (db m192763) HM
The Holocaust
1933-1945
Now and forever enshrined in memory are the six million Jewish martyrs who perished in concentration camps, ghettos and gas chambers, in their deepest agony they clung to the image of humanity and their acts . . . — — Map (db m192765) HM WM
In this memorial to the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, you can see a wailing child, a suffering mother, and a man in prayer. There are symbols of resistance—fists clutching daggers—as well as images of hope and redemption. The . . . — — Map (db m192769) HM
Organized in 1865, it was the first hospital in Pa. funded and established by Jewish people to treat members of their religion, although it was open to all. By the mid-1800s, Philadelphia’s Jewish population rose sharply, primarily because of Jews . . . — — Map (db m135901) HM
Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America Department of Rhode Island and Ladies Auxiliary.
Dedicated in Memory of all departed comrades who served their country in time of war to preserve freedom and human rights.
To honor their . . . — — Map (db m66425) WM
(side 1)
Sustained Jewish settlement in Aiken dates to the 1890s. By 1920, a concentration of Jewish-owned businesses had opened along this section of Laurens Street and other streets nearby. The first known Jewish merchant in Aiken was . . . — — Map (db m225550) HM
Summerville became a renowned health resort in the late 1800s. Many Jewish merchants, drawn to the bustling settlement, set up shop in Hutchinson Square. Among the first were Philip Wineman, a pharmacist from England, and Saul Alexander, a tailor . . . — — Map (db m224627) HM
In the years following 1900, a number of immigrant Jewish merchants moved to Edgefield and actively participated in the commercial life of the Town for nearly a century. All of these merchants sold 'dry goods," meaning textiles, ready-to-ware . . . — — Map (db m12412) HM
At 8:07 p.m. on Sunday, March 16, 1958 a bomb exploded at the Jewish Community Center at 3500 West End Avenue. The JCC, which was located here from 1952-84, often hosted community meetings aimed at desegregating Nashville's schools and communities . . . — — Map (db m147443) HM
On May 13, 1907, the San Antonio Section of the National Council of Jewish Women was organized in the Menger Hotel. Anna Hertzberg was elected president by the 15 charter members. The council immediately became active in the development of social . . . — — Map (db m30595) HM
The International & Great Northern Railroad reached the new town of Rockdale in January 1874. Among the early residents were brothers Benjamin and Joseph Lowenstein, who opened a mercantile from a tent before the railroad arrived. They and their . . . — — Map (db m74398) HM
Jewish immigrants who came to Texas through Galveston started arriving by train in Mineola shortly after its establishment in 1873. Many soon established businesses near the intersection of Broad and Johnson Streets, including Simon and Aaron . . . — — Map (db m139016) HM
Consecrated in 1844, this cemetery provided a place for Jews to be properly buried under the requirement of Judaic law. Founded by Chevrah Kaddishah (Holy Burial Society), it is the first Jewish cemetery west of Philadelphia formed during a period . . . — — Map (db m8118) HM
Born in Cape Breton to Jewish immigrant parents who had fled Czarist Russia, Ruth Goldbloom was a legendary community volunteer, leader, and fundraiser. When she learned that Pier 21, then a shed on Halifax’s waterfront, had been the . . . — — Map (db m205789) HM
November 16, 1776, the guns of Ft. Oranje returned a salute from an American brigantine, the Andrew Doria, “recognizing” the New American government and flag. The brigantine carried a copy of the Declaration of Independence signed in . . . — — Map (db m210148) HM
John Henry Patterson was born in Ireland on November 10, 1876. He was an Irish Protestant who had a thorough knowledge of the Bible, and was sympathetic to the Jewish people in biblical times and to the Zionist idea.
He served in the British . . . — — Map (db m134674) HM
(Hebrew not transcribed)"Saul and Jonathan...they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions"...(Samuel 2, 1:23)
The Jewish people have lived here for over 3,000 years.
Donated by the Jewish American . . . — — Map (db m240258) HM
During Israel’s War of Independence, 1948-49, more than
4,800 volunteers, including 168 Christians, came from 59
countries to Israel’s aid. Some had served as crew on the 10
American-purchased Aliyah Bet ships that brought so many
Holocaust . . . — — Map (db m134663) HM
"You will be amazed at Jewish youth in Palestine...they have the look of freedom." Stephen Theodore Norman, 1918-1946. Last descendent of Theodor Herzl. Stephen Norman was the grandson of Theodor Herzl and his last descendent. Born in Vienna, . . . — — Map (db m134639) HM
נתיב האריות - בית שאן
(Hebrew text not transcribed)
"And Manasseh had in Issachar and Asher Beth Shean and it's towns..." . . . — — Map (db m240317) HM
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