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Located on a hill, surrounded by a stone fence about ½ mile from Lengnau. Key is in the Home for the Aged of Lengnau.
Endingen and Lengnau were the only two places in Switzerland where Jews were permitted to reside from the 17th to the 19th centuries. In the earliest years they were forced to travel to the Rhine, and to bury their dead on an island in the middle of the river. The current cemetery dates from 1750, and earliest visible stone from 1752. The data entered here is taken from Volume 2 of the " Judenfriedhof Endingen-Lengnau", published by Menes Verlag, in Baden, SW. It was compiled by Dr. Peter Stein, of Zürich who has most graciously given permission for this database to be created for the JOWBR project of Jewishgen. In addition. he has provided his own original material, and further assistance with some translations, for which I am deeply grateful. I also wish to thank volunteers Marie De Jong, Liz James and Pierre Hahn for their help with some of the data entry. And also, as always, hearty thanks to the JewishGen team of Nolan Altman, Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias.
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