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Wellwood Cemetery

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Phone
  
+1 631-249-2300

Address
  
1400 Wellwood Ave, Wyandanch, NY 11798, USA

Hours
  
Closed now Sunday8AM–4:30PMMonday8AM–4:30PMTuesday8AM–4:30PMWednesday8AM–4:30PMThursday8AM–4:30PMFriday8AM–4:30PMSaturdayClosedSuggest an edit

Burials
  
Andy Kaufman, Leo F. Rayfiel, Shoista Mullojonova, Moses Kunitz

Julius ethel rosenberg gravesite at wellwood cemetery in farmingdale


Wellwood Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in West Babylon, New York. It was established as the annex to Beth David Cemetery in Elmont, New York, which closed to fresh burials in the 1960s. The cemetery comprises many sections, each under the auspices of a synagogue, landsmanschaft, or group such as the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Workers Union. Each of these is marked, most commonly by a stone arch or a pair of stone columns. Many of the landsmanshaft have dedicated Holocaust monuments to the victims of the Nazis in their ancestral town. Examples include Baranovichi, Belarus; Ioannina, Greece; Pilica, Poland; Sokołów Podlaski, Poland; and Burshtyn, Ukraine.

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Several well-known rabbis are buried here.

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.

Rose david weiner at wellwood cemetery on 111311 mp4


Notable burials

  • Leo F. Rayfiel – former United States House of Representatives and United States District Court judge
  • Julius and Ethel Rosenberg - convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage and executed
  • References

    Wellwood Cemetery Wikipedia