Memorial Site in Berlin
These three photos of the memorial to Mamosta Jemal Nebez in Berlin were taken on March 21 of this year.
Please note the foundation's greeting to the right of the text in the side bar. Hope is allowed. Not only at the beginning of the year but throughout the whole year.
May good days lie ahead for the Kurds and all parts of Kurdistan.
A destination for an excursion in the beautiful season
For those planning a visit to the memorial, the park cemetery itself is quite large and suitable for walking. However, the walk directly to the memorial only takes a few minutes.
Directions for getting there (by car or bus), 7-minute walk
From the busy Buckower Damm it is a 4 minute walk to the entrance of the Parkfriedhof. In the picture below you can see this entrance to the left of the sign, There the path to the memorial begins. Follow this path as marked on the map, going straight ahead almost the entire way. The way to the memorial is marked on the maps with a red dotted line leading to the memorial.
The Establishment of the memorial was approved
The memorial was established with the approval of the cemetery administration and the consent of the Berlin Senate. A prerequisite for this was the closure of the former family burial plot—which had existed since 1958—to further burials, which was done. The foundation of the memorial stele for Jemal Nebez was laid in the center of the burial plot.
Further down on this page, you will find “Additional information on the creation of the memorial and to whom the remaining gravestones at the burial plot are dedicated.” The memorial was approved because there had been no burials at this plot for decades.
A look back at the on-site gathering on December 4, 2021, to mark the erection of the memorial stele for Jemal Nebez
December of each year is significant for the Jemal Nebez Foundation, as the birthday and the day of passing of our namesake at the beginning of this month are only a few days apart.
In 2021, between these two dates, on December 4, we dedicated the memorial site for Jemal Nebez, which is maintained by our foundation—with the newly erected memorial stone at its center.
We were lucky—it didn’t rain! It was cold, though. The (herbal) tea we brought along helped. Several heartwarming memories of Jemal Nebez were shared during the event.
The last burial at the former family plot in Section 4 of the Neukölln State Park Cemetery took place on November 17, 1986.
It was the urn burial of Mrs. Eva Küchler, née Dostall, who died on October 20, 1986; she was the widow of Gerhard Küchler, who died on June 8, 1966, and the mother of their children Helmut (born December 24, 1939, died on April 11, 2022) and Hannelore Küchler (born January 1, 1943).
Helmut Küchler, who had emigrated to Sweden, agreed to the establishment of the memorial at the former family burial site and also came to Berlin with his children, Markus, Mattias, and Lillemor—including their partners and children—to Berlin to commemorate the first anniversary of Jemal Nebez’s passing in a dignified manner, while also expressing the family’s solidarity with the plan of Helmut’s sister to establish a foundation in memory of her long-time partner Jemal, which took place on March 30, 2020.
As for the family plot, it was purchased by Meta Sanders (née Behr) in 1958, following the death of her husband Gerd Jansen Sanders, and included three designated burial plots (277, 278, 279). At that time, Meta had the grave of her mother, Henriette Behr, who had died in 1935 (who had two daughters: Meta and Martha) moved to the Park Cemetery and had her mother’s headstone erected there next to those for her husband and herself. She herself was buried in the designated plot in 1983. It was the last burial there.
Before Eva Küchler, née Dostall, died in 1986, she proposed moving the gravesite of her parents, Martha and Friedrich Dostall, as well as the grave of her husband Gerhard, who died in 1966—which was also the grave of his parents Alma and Gustav—along with the two urn grave markers, to the family plot purchased by Meta Sanders, and to have her own burial take place there as well. This was arranged.
Eva was buried in the family plot in October 1986, and the two urn graves proposed for relocation were moved to the Neukölln Park Cemetery in 1987 with the permission of the cemetery administration. The two previously upright urn gravestones were redesigned as flat stones and re-inscribed.
In consultation with the cemetery administration, the additional memorial stone for Jemal Nebez was erected in November 2021 in the center of the trio of plots 277, 278, 279 in Section 4 of the Neukölln Park Cemetery.