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More than 1,000 years of Jewish heritage in Germany's oldest city, Warmaisa/Worms. Europe's oldest Jewish cemetery, the "Holy Sand", is a fascinating place - full of atmosphere. And it miraculously survived the Nazi period (unlike the large Jewish community here...).
The "Heiliger Sand ("Holy Sand") has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries; rabbies from across Europe wanted to be buried here. Israel's president Chaim Herzog visited the Jewish cemetery, together with Germany's oldest synagogue and the Jewish museum, in 1987. In the first imperial diploma for a city of the Holy Roman Empire in AD 1074, the emperor Henry IV granted privileges to "the Jews and the other inhabitants of Worms", which mirrors the social, political and economic importance of the Jewish community here almost 1,000 years ago. |
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