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The Jewish Cemetery Weißensee is one of the largest and most beautiful Jewish cemeteries in Europe. Numerous celebrities and personalities from Berlin were buried here.
The Weißensee Jewish Cemetery, opened in 1880, has more than 115,000 burials. On the circular flowerbed at the main entrance is a monument commemorating the 6 million Jews who were victims of Nazi persecution.
On the stones arranged in the shape of a circle are engraved the names of all the major concentration camps.
Behind the circular flowerbed is the Trauerhalle, built by Hugo Licht in 1880.
South of the site where the new Trauerhalle, destroyed in 1944, was built in 1910, is a war memorial field, honoring Jewish soldiers who died in World War I.
In the center of the field is a monument made of shell limestone representing a monumental altar.
