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JEWISH CEMETERIES IN COLOMBIA:

THE JEWISH CEMETERY OF BOGOTA  IN BOSA,  (a suburb of Bogota), the Ashekanazi in the north and Sepharadic in downtown Bogota.

Colombia: Local woman walks past entrance to Jewish cemetery in Bogotá.  PHOTO BY LARRY LUXNER.
Colombia: Local woman walks past entrance to Jewish cemetery in Bogotá.
PHOTO BY
LARRY LUXNER. COPIED WITH PERMISSION. 

The country's Ministry of Culture declared Bosa Jewish cemetery in southern Colombia a national cultural landmark. Inaugurated in 1932, the site contains 892 tombs in a triangular lot at the center of which is a monument to Holocaust victims. Source: , October 1998. World Jewish Congress, 501 Madison Ave., NY, NY 10022

Colombia: Jewish tombstones engraved in Spanish and Yiddish at a cemetery in southern Bogotá. PHOTO BY LARRY LUXNER.
Colombia: Jewish tombstones engraved in Spanish and Yiddish at a cemetery in southern Bogotá. PHOTO BY LARRY LUXNER. COPIED WITH PERMISSION. 

BARRANQUILLA Has a Jewish cemetery.

Comunidad Judia de Cali,
POB 8918,
Cali, Columbia,
Tel:  601 930 

MEDELLIN Has a Jewish cemetery.


Sources:
http://www.luxner.com/index.html 
http://www.jewishgen.org/cemetery/southamerica/columbia.html

 

 

 
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