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The cemetery, founded in 1880 is a sanctuary which particularly vividly testifies to the inseparable connection between Jewish, Berliner and German history The tombstones bear witness to the names of those whose extraordinary achievements are linked with medicine, natural sciences, art, literature and humanities and:

The tombstones bear witness to persecution victims who took their own lives in the face of threatened deportation, as well as reminding us of those murdered in concentration camps, who could not be buried at this site.