Jewish families in Vidnava (Weidenau), Bohemia, Czech Republic

This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families in Vidnava (Weidenau) in Bohemia, Czech Republic.

Cemetery

Earliest known Jewish community was 1726. Jewish population was 5 Jews in 1921 and 2 in 1930. The unlandmarked Jewish cemetery originated in 1854 with last known Conservative Jewish burial before 1942. No other towns or villages used this cemetery between fields and woods, on an isolated hillside without sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all via no wall, fence, or gate. The pre- and post-WWII size of cemetery is about 0.15 ha.

[http://www.iajgsjewishcemeteryproject.org/czech-republic/vidnava.html]