Zeeburg Cemetery
Flevopark, Amsterdam
In 1714 the Ashkenazi (High German) Jews began
using the Zeeburg cemetery. They had been using a cemetery in
Muiderberg since 1642 but with the population explosion among
Amsterdam Jews, it was proving too small. Zeeburg was above all
intended for poor Jews who couldn't afford the cost of a grave. It
was also the place where people were buried when they died on a
Friday or Jewish festival, or the day before one of these. The
funeral procession to the cemetery at Muiderberg would be with a
horse and cart and then by barge. This was so time-consuming it
couldn't take place on high days and holidays. But Zeeburg lay much
nearer the city. Between the years 1714 and 1942 around 100,000
people were buried here.
After World War II the cemetery fell into oblivion.
In 1956 the board of the Jewish community sold part of it to the
Amsterdam municipality, which was planning to build a main road
through it. Many of the graves were transported to the cemetery in
Diemen; the rest of the cemetery is now part of Flevo Park.
The writer and journalist Boudewijn Büch described in the Amsterdam daily Het Parool (The Word) (18 June 1982) how: 'On a summer's day I stroll through what is in fact Flevo Park p and pass through a brick gateway into Zeeburg. This lovely old gateway isn't the original entrance into the cemetery. Until 1898 there was a gate across the bridge leading up to and across today's Singelgracht. The entrance was rebuilt in 1938 in the place where it now stands. The 'former Israelite Cemetery Zeeburg' consists today of three parts and is reached through wrought-iron gates that are always unlocked. I wander though the long grass, the sun is warm on my back. All around people are basking in the sun, sometimes stretched out on a gravestone. Lawnmowers seldom pay a visit to Zeeburg; in fact it would be virtually impossible to mow or cut the grass with a sickle, because of the thousands of pieces of stone lying scattered through the grass and tumbled between the marshy reeds'.
It was thanks to this article that the municipality of Amsterdam decided to restore the Zeeburg cemetery.
Collectie en mediatheek
Lithografische steen
1850 (ca.)
object, lithografische steen. maker, anoniem. materiaal, steen. datering, 1850
(ca.). plaats, Nederland. hoogte, 16.0. breedte, 22.0. diepte, 5.2. ...
Collectie > Museumstukken > 00482
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Verklaring
1774
Verklaring van de Weeskamer mbt het overlijden van Aron Isaac
Melondon echtgenoot van Vogel Goedman, 1774.
Collectie > Documenten > 00005582
Begrafenisregister
1771-1786
Fotokopie uit het "Register van de lijken begraven te Zeeburg" met vermelding
van de begrafenis van Aron Isaac Melondon, 1774.
Collectie > Documenten > 00005581
Foto
1985 (ca.)
Foto van begraafplaats Zeeburg, Amsterdam, circa 1985.
Collectie > Fotos > 40007750
Overzichtsfoto
2001 (ca.)
Joodse begraafplaats Zeeburg, bij het Flevopark, circa 2001.
Collectie > Fotos > 40009602
Vergadering van den Kerkeraad der Ned. Isr. Hoofdsynagoge op Woensdagavond 23 December...
Verslag van een kerkenraadsvergadering van de Ned. Isr. Hoofdsynagoge
waarbij in hoofdzaak de begroting 1904 werd besproken..
Collectie > Joodse pers > 20054430
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"Lijst der aangegeven lijken" in Amsterdam, ingeschreven tussen 1806 en 1811
1991
"Lijst der aangegeven lijken" in Amsterdam, ingeschreven tussen 1806 en 1811.
Collectie > Literatuur > 11508636
