Wellwood Cemetery
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 tombstones with Hebrew inscriptions on Wellwood Cemetery | |
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| Type | Jewish cemetery |
Wellwood Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in
Baranovichi, Belarus;[1] Ioannina, Greece;[2] Pilica, Poland;[3] Sokołów Podlaski, Poland;[4] and Burshtyn, Ukraine.[5]
Several well-known rabbis are buried here.[6] Kehillas Belz of New York has a section within the Beth Moses section of Wellwood Cemetery. The Belz Kehilla still dedicated (Mekudash) this section when the previous Belz Rebbe Reb Aharon was still alive.
Notable burials
- Maury Allen – sportswriter, actor, and columnist[7]
- Jules Bass - television producer, director, author and lyricist
- Craig Gilbert – film writer, producer, and director
- Danny Leiner – film director
- Lucy Ozarin – one of the first women psychiatrists commissioned in the US Navy and one of seven women Navy psychiatrists who served during World War II
- United States District Courtjudge
- Julius and Ethel Rosenberg[8][9] – convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and executed
- Lester Wolff– Former member of the United States House of Representatives
References
- ^ "hm/baranavichy/wellwood". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com.
- ^ "hm/ioannina/wellwood". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com.
- ^ "hm/piltz/wellwood". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com.
- ^ "hm/sokolow-podlaski/wellwood". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com.
- ^ "hm/burshtyn/wellwood". www.museumoffamilyhistory.com.
- ^ "Wellwood Cemetery – Long Island". kevarim.com.
- OCLC 948561021.
- New York Times. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
- OCLC 948561021.
