Search for Owners of Vaults in the Pantin (Paris) Jewish Cemetery

Old Jewish Graves in Pantin Cemetery

The rights for two hundred burial vaults in the Pantin Jewish cemetery may legally be transferred to the Paris cemetery administration, which can have the deceased exhumed, unless descendants of those interred are traced.  The vast majority of these vaults are "tombs bought in perpetuity."  This means that the only cost to descendants would be for maintenance of the tombstones.  For other vaults, the continuance of the burial "concession" (i.e., for 100 years) must be paid, otherwise the bones will be exhumed.

Bought at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century by members of the Jewish community of Paris, these burial vaults are much deteriorated today.  Up to fifty tombs can be found in any one vault.  The vaults could be protected through the intervention of direct descendants of the owners, but unfortunately most are unaware of the current risk to their ancestral graves.  More than 80,000 French Jews were victims of the Holocaust, and any surviving descendants they may have are now scattered around the world.

Anyone related to the following early 20th-century Paris Jews should send an e-mail immediately to Deborah Dreyfus at info@agudasyisroel-eu.org.

ALEXANDRE Simon AMRAN Jules ATLAS Adolphe BACHRICH Samuel BADY Maximilien BANCK Wolff BEHAR Esperance BERNHEIM Juliette BIRGE Henri BIRKEMOE Peter BLOCH Alexandre BLOCH Esther BLUM Clotilde BLUM Gustave BONN Julie BRANDENBOURG Sigismond BRUNSCHWIG Joseph BUTTENWEISER Benjamin CAEN Edouard CAHEN Emilie CANTOR Jacob CERF Charles CHAPIRO VOLBERT Boris CHIMENES Gaston CHRENPREIS Andre COBLENCE Mayer COBLENTZ Julie COHEN Abraham DA COSTA Silva DAVIDS Sylvain DE SCHAUENBURG Maurice DEITZ Leon DEWULF Justin DIAMANTBERGER David DREYFUS Gaston EIFA Aron ESKENAZI Albert FALAIZE LAVILLE Gabriel FEISEL Alfred FINKEL Max FREIS Simon FUCHS Charles GALICO Azaria GOETSCH Ernestine GOLDKETTE Bennevois GOLDMANN Morley GOLDSCHMIDT Lothaire GOLOBORODSKY Michel GOUGENHEIM Georges GRIBINSKI Maurice GRUNBERG Pauline HALPERIN Constant HELFT Gustave HERMANN Leon HEYMAN Babette HIRTZ Samuel HUET Adelaide IKELHEIMER Rosalie ISAACS Esther ISRAEL Paul ITZIG Philippe JACOB Celina JACOBER Benjamin JACOBOVITZ Abraham JACOBSON David JUNES Bibo COBOWITZ Maurice KAPLAN Henri KARTUN Salomon LAFERME Rosalie LAKSINE Charles LANG Maurice LAZARD Sarah LEIB Albert LEIBOVITZ Benjamin LEOPARD Pauline

LEVI Mathilde LEVI-BRAMIBRAHIM Henri LEVY Camille LEVY Emile LEVY Jacob LEVY Victor LUZATO Max MACAULAY Rachel MADERA Deborah MAHLBERG Samuel MARGOULISS Alexandre MAYER Raphael MENDELSOHN Berthe MEYER Estelle MIZRAKI Rebecca MOYSE Leopold NEINADEL Joseph NETTER Cecile NETTER Mathias NEUJARHR Isidore NUNES Joseph ORDENSTEIN Herman PENHA Mariana PERSON Mendel PICARD Eugene PIETTE DE MONTFOUCAULT Adele POLITZER Simon RABDEL Samuel RACOVSKY Leon RAPAPORT Jacques RIVELINE Hirsch ROSENBERG HACHMANN Leon ROSENBERG Ruben ROSENFELD Ernest ROSENTHAL Ernest ROSH Forestine SALOMON Alphonse SALOMON Arthur SALOMON Laure SALOMON Robert SARACHEWSKY Sabrina SCHARTZ Ignatz SCHILLER Henry SCHLUSSELBLUM Renee SCHNEEBERG Edouard SCHRKROB Pauline SCHROKB Henri SCHROKB Maurice SCHWOB Antoinette SEE Arthur SEGALL Armand SEIDLITZ Siegfried SENCIER Gaston SIMON Alexandre STERN Benjamin STERN Helene STIBBE Abraham STRIBREVER Nuhiu SUISSA Massaoud TCHOULOK Isaac THOREAU Charles TIANO Joseph TOLMAN Ephin et Naum VANPRAAG Elie VILLAR Charles WALDTENFEL Raoul WASSERBERGER Ignace WECHSLER Leon WEIL Adrien et Bernard WEIL Charles WEIL Ellen WEILL Charles WEISSMANN Maurice WOLOCH Isser WOOG Adele WORONICK Elias