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  • New Camden Cemetery

    New Camden Cemetery

    Northeast Corner of Mount Ephraim Avenue and Ferry Avenue New Camden Cemetery is on the northeast corner of Mount Ephraim Avenue and Ferry Avenue, opposite Evergreen Cemetery. The cemetery opened in 1887, as Old Camden Cemetery, between Mount Ephraim and Haddon Avenues north of Mount Vernon Street, was approaching capacity. The City of Camden owns…

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  • NOTED RABBI SPEAKS IN CAMDEN TONIGHT

    Camden Courier-Post – February 1, 1938 Jewish Community to Fete Dr. Goldstein, President of Palestine Fund Rabbi Israel Goldstein, of New York, president of the Jewish National Fund of America, will speak tonight at a mass meeting at the Hotel Walt Whitman, in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the Jewish National Fund. Preceding the…

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  1. Ronnie Weiss (Ms) Avatar
    Ronnie Weiss (Ms)

    I’m trying to find a possible gravesite in the Jewish section. My grandparents are buried there. I grew up in Camden. The last name is WEISS and first names were JACOB and ESTER or ESTHER. Any information on my grandparents would be wonderful. I know there was a lot of destruction in the cemetery and tombstones were destroyed. I can hope. I’m trying to recreate my heritage to somehow prove that we are definitely Jewish so I can keep my brother from being cremated when he dies.

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