With immigrants insisting on their own Jewish cemeteries, these groups eagerly looked for a cemetery to sell its members plots in their own special created sections. Historically the first institutions newly arrived Jewish immigrants created in their new communities were religious, educational, and fraternal organizations. Website: Westlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum Association, Inc.Jewish Waldheim was founded during the second wave of Jewish immigration to Chicago in the late-19th century. The cemetery is willing to take photos of graves and e-mail or mail themĬemetery have been independently surveyed and recorded as follows: The cemetery now takes requests to search for the graves of your family Including your name, address, phone, and fax numbers to the cemetery. Have a number of names you are researching, please fax the list of names The records are computerized and can be best accessed by telephoning the cemetery. This and other Chicago Jewish cemeteries is available at the Organizations' With information regarding the location of specific graves and otherĪvailable at the cemetery office. An alphabetical list of all sections of These cemeteries showing the gates that compose the larger Waldheim, together Synagogues, vereins, landsmanshaften, fraternal organizations, and Zionist Of general sections and almost 250 cemetery sections representing family groups, Over 150,000 Jewish burials dating from the 1860s to Shalom Memorial Park and Randhill Park Cemetery (21 April There are a number of gravestones in F section at Mt Mayriv that areĪlmost undecipherable which may be these graves. These graves were supposedly moved again to Mt. Graves were moved from the Chicago City Cemetery to the Southwest corner ofīelmont and Clark in 1854. Mayriv may have been from theįirst Jewish cemetery which was Chicago City Cemetery (in Lincoln Park). Synagogues mentioned above members of KAM (1886) are also buried here.īelieved that some of the oldest graves in Mt. Parenthesis represent estimates of the earliest burials. (1857) and Isaiah Israel (1886) cemeteries were all brought under the management Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR). Onto JewishGen and accessing the JewishGen The records can be accessed by telephoning the cemetery or by going The cemetery has about 612 burials from Congregation Beth Israel. Historic information about the cemetery, contact the Jewish The check should be made out to Jewish Graceland-Lakeview. $35 research fee and a self-addressed stamped envelope. The cemetery is open by appointment only.Ī letter to the mailing address above with the names and death dates (if known) of individuals being researched. Total Jewish burials are over 5000 with no non-Jewish burials. Two center sections (Gates 2 & 3) are owned by the Hebrew Benevolent Society and are described (Gate 1) and the South section (Gate 4) are owned by Doris Wess-Evon and are described here. For more information e-mail Graceland and Lakeview Cemetery Records have been indexed and are also available through the Jewish The cemetery is open by appointment only. Total Jewish burials are estimated at over 1500 with no non-Jewish burials. (Gate 4) are owned by Doris Wess-Evon and described under Jewish Graceland. The North section (Gate 1) and the South section (Gates 2 & 3) are owned by the Hebrew Benevolent Gate 3: Hebrew Benevolent Society (1249 burials) That make up the original Jewish Graceland Cemetery. The records are not computerized and can be best Also, many individuals from the Drexel Home for the Aged Shomer Hadas, Jewish War Veterans - South Section, and Lawn Manor Jewish burials are in the Court of David section. Office for information regarding a specific individual. The records are not computerized and are organized alphabetically. Westlawn Cemetery and Mausoleum Association, Inc.įor information about the history of Chicago cemeteries including Jewishīurials from the following synagogues: Congregation Am Echad, Anshe Sholom,Ĭongregation Beth Sholom, Temple B'nai Yeduda. Shalom Memorial Park and Randhill Park Cemetery
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