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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the town of Bassum, Germany.
Bassum is a town in the district of Diepholz, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 35 km northeast of Diepholz, and 25 km south of Bremen.
From the International Jewish Cemetery Project:
"BASSUM: 27211 Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen) (Gerz, Peters). DISTRICT: Diepholz. LOCATION OF CEMETERY: Leave Bassum on Sulinger Strasse. Cemetery is a few hundred yards after railroad crossing on the left, adjoining the Wedekamps brickyard. IN USE: From 1840 until 1937 NUMBER OF GRAVESTONES: 28. There are also 9 memorials dedicated to massgraves of WW2. DOCUMENTATION: 1989/90 photographs of all gravestones with translations of all gravestone inscriptions by Landesverband/Zentralarchiv. Full cemetery documentation by Günter Schmidt-Bollmann deposited in Bassum City Archives (Stadtarchiv Bossum). NOTES: This cemetery was spared destruction and vandalism during the Nazi era and has been cared for since 1959 by the Association of Jewish Communities in Lower Saxony. In addition to 42 old individual Jewish graves, there are also graves holding the remains of WW2 individual Soviet and 46 Polish prisoners of war. SOURCE: University of Heidelberg and Historisches Handbuch, pages 179-183 (DNB). (Researched and translated from German May 2009) Last Updated on Sunday, 03 May 2009 17:34" Accessed March 2016.