Floss Jewish Cemetery
Breaking news!! In 2006, the town of Floss has launched a project to document the Jewish cemtery. Contact them at E-mail: for more information or to doante old photos.
The cemetery is on a very steep hill, about 1/4 mi southeast of town, on a steep hill, across from boarding stable. It is locked and the key is not easily available, but the wall is easy to climb over. Watch out for the stinging nettles. If you want the key, contact Frau Gabi Brenner, E-mail: Her company is Fotoversand Brenner, at http://www.brenner-fotoversand.de
The oldest graves are at the bottom of the hill and have only Hebrew inscriptions. Midway up the hill there is a bench [Ed note: in 2005 the report was that the bench was gone ]and flat area with a path. All the graves above that point have German inscriptions, as well as Hebew, but only a few below that point do. Some are numbered on the side, although many of the numbers have worn off. These numbers must have been from a renumbering because they do not match the handwritten list and a corresponding map (which no one has a copy of, so contact me if you do) of who is buried where, created by Jonas Wetzler (1842-1918). This covers about 300 of the approximately 400 total graves.
Click for pictures of legible gravestones for the following families: Bloch, Engelmann, Hoenigsberger, Klein, Langermann, Reichenberger, Schwartz, Steinhardt, and Wilmersdoerfer.
Some other legible gravestones are shown: Family name starting with B, Family name starting with W, and some other legible gravestones.
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On a visit to Floss in August 2000, an effort was made to photograph every legible gravestone with German writing in the cemetery. Send email if you are interested in helping sort these or can catalogue better the photos on the pages that follow or plan to visit Floss yourself.
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