Jewish cemetery in Hradec Králové, Jewish cemetery in Pouchov, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
The Jewish cemetery in Hradec Králové lies within the cemetery by the Church of Saint Paul in Pouchov. It holds 280 gravestones from 1877 to 1942, ranging from traditional flat stelae to stones shaped by interwar avant-garde design. The front part was used from 1877, the rear from 1918. A ceremonial hall with a zinc-clad, light-green cupola stands on the site, with the gravedigger's flat beside it and a columbarium added in 1932.
The cemetery was established in 1877 to serve the Jewish community in Hradec Králové. The community faced a tragic turning point in 1942 when many members were deported to concentration camps.
The cemetery is opened to the public only on special occasions, such as International Holocaust Remembrance Day; the first such opening was in 2011. A granite memorial erected in 1950 carries the names and ages at death of 376 Holocaust victims from Hradec Králové and neighbouring communities.
The cemetery is part of the cemetery at St. Paul's Church in Pouchov, north of Hradec Králové's centre. It is opened only on special occasions, such as International Holocaust Remembrance Day; it was first opened for that day in 2011. The ceremonial hall, with its zinc-sheet dome painted light green, stands on the site, and the columbarium is on its southwest side.
The granite Holocaust memorial erected in 1950 stands in the cemetery: a central stele flanked by two lower and two higher plaques bearing the names of 376 murdered people together with their ages at death. The first person buried here, on 11 September 1877, was the six-year-old child of Dr. Baumer of Hradec Králové.
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