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25T49 Berlin Weißensee: Margot Friedländer

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The Jewish Cemetery in Berlin Weißensee is one of the largest in Europe. Opened in 1880, the cemetery remains active as the resting grounds for over 100-thousand people in an area covering about 40-hectares (99 acres).

But I’m here also to look for Margot Friedländer. Both survivors of the Holocaust, she and her husband emigrated to the United States in 1946. In 2010, she returned to her birth city of Berlin, where she spoke about her experiences to children at schools and at talks for the general public. She became a respected teacher and educator.

*Cemetery entrance: Holocaust memorial in the foreground, mourning hall in the background.*

*The final spot for Anni Margot Friedländer.*

*She passed away on the day I arrived in Europe and Germany. Finding the location of her grave and learning the date of her passing struck me hard.*

*Grave of honour from the city-state of Berlin. The little pin at lower left: “nie wieder” (never again).*

*“Just a moment: the boss is on their way to greet you personally.”*

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 25 June 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T38 Return to Vienna’s city of the dead

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I keep coming back to Vienna. That also means I go back to the vast but peaceful confines of the city’s largest green-space: the Zentralfriedhof, Europe’s 2nd largest cemetery with over 300-thousand graves and more than 3 million buried.

Since 2018, I’ve visited Vienna four times, and the central cemetery at least six times, including today. That explains how I’ve sought, found, and photographed 60-plus graves of some (very) notable people. Does a new visit add a few more to the list, or discovering new names to find in the cemetery come first?

*Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: Austria’s 1st woman architect; inventor of the fitted “Frankfurt kitchen”.*

Lamarr co-invented and patented technology which is ubiquitous today within the mobile phone. About half of her ashes are buried here at this spot; the other half was scattered in the woods north of Vienna.

*Physicist Ludwig Boltzmann: his name is all over the fields/study of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics*.

*Anatomiegedenkstätte (group 26), dedicated to those who donated their bodies to science after death; memorial established here since 2009.*

*Plaque (Tafel) number 110, in the Anatomiegedenkstätte. I’m looking for one nameplate: 4th column from right, 7th name from top.*

An accessibility advocate whose insights and perspectives were on display as at vienna_wheelchair_view (IG), Evelyn passed away suddenly at the beginning of the year. I met her briefly last year, and I had hoped to say ‘hi’ to her again this year.

*2. Tor: cemetery’s gate number 2. I walked from the west side (gate 1) to the east side (gate 3) of the cemetery, and back around to gate 2.*

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 14 Jun 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

24T14 Hamburg: who’s in Ohlsdorf cemetery?

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In the northern part of Hamburg lies Europe’s largest cemetery at over 400 hectares (almost 990 acres) with over a quarter-million graves and almost 1.5 million burials since 1877. I went in search for a couple of names and found a couple more, as well as some fresh air and a stretch of the legs after a lengthy day on trains from Trier.

*Physicist* *Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (after whom the unit of frequency is named), 1857-1894.*

*Physicist Gustav Hertz, 1887-1986: Heinrich Hertz’s nephew; jointly awarded 1925 Nobel Prize in Physics.*

*Teacher & environmentalist Hannelore Loki Schmidt (1919-2010), and her husband Helmut Schmidt (1918-2017) who served as chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.*

*Eingänge sind Übergänge (Entrances are transitions)*

From Hamburg’s central station (Hauptbahnhof), a ride on either the U4 or S1 to Ohlsdorf brings visitors to the cemetery’s front gate.

Completed after 14 travel days: just over 121 km of walking, in 173649 steps (“Health” estimates).

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 21 May 2024. This post composed with Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.

New West actor Raymond Burr

Fraser Cemetery

As a boy whose early memories include the family’s small black-and-white television from the 1970s, I remember the tv show “Ironside.” Canadian-born Raymond Burr played the titular character of Robert Ironside, special consultant for the San Francisco police department. Years later in the mid- to late-1980s, Burr returned as Perry Mason, the lead from the 1960s weekly tv-drama revived as a popular series of made-for-tv movies. He died in 1993, buried with members of his family in Fraser Cemetery, at home in New Westminster, B.C.

*Burr family grave at lower-centre – 9 Apr 2024 (iP15).*

*Raymond Burr (lower-right), with sister Geraldine, father William, and mother Minerva – 9 Apr 2024 (iP15).*

In 1858, the British established New Westminster as first- and capital-city of the new colony of British Columbia. Fraser Cemetery accepted its first burials in 1869.

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 9 April 2024. Composed entirely within Jetpack for iOS, this post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-sjD.

My Berlin: Minkowski space in Heerstrasse cemetery

Waldfriedhof Heerstrasse (Heerstrasse forest cemetery)

Is this a small park with plenty of trees, hilly terrain, and a small lake? Or is this simply a forest cemetery, a final resting spot for many prominent Berliners?

As part of an ongoing search for gravesites for physicists and mathematicians in Germany, I visited Berlin’s Friedhof Heerstrasse, near the city’s Olympic Stadium. Within the cemetery is Sausuhlensee lake, which settled into a former glacial gully, around which much of the cemetery came into being in 1924. Named after the early 20th-century Heerstrasse estate district whose residents were to be buried here, the cemetery stretches out over an area of almost 15 hectares (37 acres).

I found the grave for physicist Hermann Minkowski, but among the buried there are other “Promis” (prominent).

Friedhof Heerstrasse, Westend, Berlin, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Forested park, forest cemetery.

The calm waters of Sausuhlensee lake on an autumn afternoon.

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