• The Weißensee Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery located in the neighborhood of Weißensee in Berlin, Germany.
  • Discover Weißensee Cemetery in Berlin, Germany: This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.
  • The Weißensee Cemetery is the second largest Jewish cemetery in Europe, containing 115,000 graves covering an area of 100 acres.
  • Please Note. Men should cover their heads when visiting the Weißensee Jewish Cemetery. Kippas are provided on loan at the entrance.
  • This cemetery is a much better monument to German-Jewish history than the one recalling the Holocaust close to Brandenburger Tor.
  • The winter days in Berlin are short so darkness descends early. It was necessary not to wait too long into the day to take a 45 minute trip to Weissensee Cemetery.
  • Europe's biggest Jewish cemetery in Weißensee is more like a forest, ancient trees, bent by age, tower over the ivy-covered tombstones.
  • In 1880, the Jewish community in Berlin established the cemetery in Weißensee because the existing one in Schönhauser Allee had run out of space.
  • The Weissensee Jewish Cemetery (Jüdischer Friedhof Weißensee) is the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe.
  • She died in Vienna in 1890 at the age of 57, and was brought from the Vienna Central Cemetery to Weissensee in 1894.