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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. 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.
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.
Notable burials
Maury Allen – sportswriter, actor, and columnist
Jules Bass - television producer, director, author and lyricist
Shulamith Firestone - Radical Feminist, artist, author of The Dialectic of Sex and Airless Spaces
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
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
Lester Wolff – Former member of the United States House of Representatives
References
External links
Official website
Wellwood Cemetery at Find a Grave
GNIS data 40°44′22″N 73°23′12″W
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