Mount Hebron Cemetery (New York City)

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Mount Hebron Cemetery
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Queens, N.Y.
Map
Details
Established1909
Location
Flushing, New York
CountryUS
TypeJewish
Size250 acres (1.0 km2)
No. of gravesmore than 220,000
WebsiteMount Hebron Cemetery
Find a GraveMount Hebron Cemetery
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Sergei Dovlatov
Raphael Lemkin

Mount Hebron is a Jewish cemetery located in Flushing, Queens, New York, United States. It was founded in 1903 as the Jewish section of Cedar Grove Cemetery,[1] and occupies the vast majority of the grounds at Cedar Grove.[2] The cemetery is on the former Spring Hill estate of colonial governor Cadwallader Colden. Mount Hebron is arranged in blocks, which are then split up into sections or society grounds. Sections were originally sold mainly to families or Jewish community groups such as landsmanshaftn, mutual aid societies, and burial societies. For instance, Mount Hebron is known for having a section reserved for people who worked in New York City's Yiddish theater industry.[3] [4][5] While this type of organization is common for American Jewish cemeteries, Mount Hebron has an especially diverse range of society grounds.[6] About 226,000 people have been buried in Mount Hebron since it opened.[7]

There is a large Workmen's Circle section in both Cedar Grove and Mount Hebron Cemetery, with about 12,000 burials of Jewish and non-Jewish members of the Workmen's Circle.

Mount Hebron also hosts a number of Holocaust memorials erected on society grounds by Jewish immigrants. For instance, there is a large monument erected by immigrants and descendants of immigrants from the city of Grodno in what is today western Belarus. The monument is dedicated "In memoriam to our dear parents, brothers and sisters of the city of Grodno and environs who were brutally persecuted and slain by the Nazis during World War II."[8]

Notable burials

References

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