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Curaçao Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions
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Italics indicate that the text was written in Hebrew, not Portuguese.

Contributor:

The Jewish Community of Curaçao

Places:

Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)

Date:

Early 18th Century

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

History, Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Cemetery (Altona)
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The Jewish cemetery of Altona is made up of two separate cemeteries, one Sephardic (established in 1611 and later expanded several times) and one Ashkenazic (1616, also later expanded). In the…

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

17th and 18th Centuries

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Gravestones in rows.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Cemetery, Gravestone
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

First Half of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with crest on top, and twin columns of text below.
Jamaica Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions
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Gravestone of honorable old lady Sra Rachel, wife of the wealthy citizen the honorable R. Jacob Fernandes Gill, deceased, seventh day of Passover, 22 Nisan 5486May her soul be…

Places:

Jamaica, British America and the British West Indies (Jamaica)

Date:

17th and 18th Centuries

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

History, Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Barbados Cemetery, Gravestone Inscriptions
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[This is the grave] of the blessed, revered, and God-fearing Abraham Baruh Henriques, who, in his life, sustained this Holy Synagogue of Nidhe Israel and protected it with…

Places:

Barbados, British America and the British West Indies (Barbados)

Date:

1700–1750

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

History, Inscriptions, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs