Description

CEM 220-Rev_Ohev Zedeck Cemetery

Other Known Names: Ohev Zedek United Shevra Kudisha

Street Address:        1214 Upper James

Location: Lot 15, Concession 7, Barton Township

Type of Cemetery: Religious (Jewish) Responsible Agency: Adas Israel Synagogue

Status for Burials: Open for burials          Plot Plan: None

Size:         Medium, 400 monuments

Fencing: Chain link, and concrete Monument Types: Flat, upright and column Monuments of: Marble and granite

Opening 1912

History:

The earliest known interment is for Morris Studnitz in 1912. The cemetery saw the burial in 1930 of Bessie Perri, the common-law wife of bootlegger Rocco Perri, an event which may have been the largest funeral ever to take place in Hamilton. The notoriety surrounding both the death and burial of Bessie Perri continued long after, when in an act of vandalism, her surname was pried off the tombstone.

Registered to Adas Israel Synagogue.

A memorial to all Jews killed under the Nazi persecution 1939-1945 A small Jewish Cemetery on Hamilton Mountain. On the OSM Map the cemetery is listed as Ohev Zedeck Cemetery. On the United Hebrew Memorial Chapel of Hamilton website it is listed as Adas Israel Cemetery (and states that it includes Hess Street Shul Cemetery) (visit link) On the Hamilton Jewish Federation website is is listed as Hess Street Shul Cemetery (visit link) . And on the Ontario Genealogy Society website it is listed as United Chevra Kedisha: aka. Ohev Zedeck Shalom Village Cemetery (visit link) .

Access to the cemetery is through the driveway and parking lot that leads to the Courtyard Marriott hotel.

There are no signs for this cemetery and it is hard to notice behind the wall / hedge / fence and it is in a very busy commercial area. I have passed by this location dozens of times and only noticed the cemetery when I went to visit the hotel.