By Dsaved.com
VIENNA — It was 1943 when Vienna's Nazi overlords gave the order to
destroy the city's oldest Jewish cemetery, demanding it be leveled and
the tombstones attesting to centuries of Jewish existence there be
destroyed.
Desperate to save their heritage, the city's shrinking Jewish
community decided to act. Defying the possibility of prison, deportation
or execution, they buried the gravestones and kept them from Nazi
hands.
Some 70 years later, Jewish leaders in the Austrian capital
say the long-lost stones have been rediscovered. It is a find they say
could transform a small obscure graveyard into one that rivals the
significance of Prague's Jewish cemetery, the oldest known burial ground
of its kind.
