Memorial Site in Berlin
On the state-owned park cemetery Neukölln Buckower Damm 148, 12349 Berlin a memorial site for Jemal Nebez has been established with the permission of the cemetery administration and the approval of the Senate of Berlin. One requirement on the part of cemetery administration was a waiver of the right to have any more coffin burials on this privileged site. The right to prolong the tenure of the site, however, remains. In 2019 additional permission was given to erect a memorial in the middle of the site which was done early in December 2021.
Explanation of the remaining gravestones on the elective site
Further down on this subsite, those of you who are interested will find
"Additional information on the creation of the memorial and to whom the gravestones on the site are dedicated". The approval to erect the memorial was possible because there had not been a burial on the site for decades.
On the Inauguration of the Memorial on December 4th, 2021
December is important for the Jemal Nebez Foundation as the birthday and the departure day of our namesake early in December are only a few days apart.
In 2021, between these two days, on December 4th, we inaugurated the memorial site for Jemal Nebez at Parkfriedhof Neukölln, with the newly erected memorial stone in the middle.
We were lucky, it wasn't raining! But cold it was. Many heartwarming memories of Jemal Nebez were exchanged and hot beverages offered.
Additional information on the creation of the memorial and to whom the gravestones on the site are dedicated
The last burial on the former family electoral site in Section 4 of the state-owned Neukölln Park Cemetery took place on November 17, 1986.
It was the urn burial of Mrs. Eva Küchler, née Dostall, who died on 8.6.1966 as widow of Gerhard Küchler, and mother of their children Helmut (born on 24.12.1939, died on 11.4.2022) and Hannelore Küchler (born on 1.1.1943).
Helmut Küchler, who emigrated to Sweden, agreed to the establishment of the memorial on the former family burial site and came with his partner Britt to Berlin, together with his children, Markus, Mattias and Lillemor who came as well with their partners and children, to commemorate the first anniversary of Jemal Nebez's departure a year earlier, also as an expression of the family's solidarity with Helmut's sister's plan to set up a foundation in memory of her long-time partner Jemal, which took place on March 30, 2020.
As for the family burial plot, it was created with three elective burial plots (277, 278, 279) of Meta Sanders, née Behr on the occasion of the departure of her husband Gerd Jansen Sanders in 1958. at which time Meta also had the burial place of her mother Henriette Behr moved to the park cemetery, together with the gravestone. Henriette, who died in 1935, had two daughters: Martha and Meta. Meta acquired the elective site and had her mother's gravestone next to those for her husband and herself erected there.
Before Eva Küchler, neé Dostall died in 1986 she suggested that the grave site of her parents, Martha and Friedrich Dostall and that of her husband Gerhard, which also happened to be the grave site of his parents Alma and Gustav, be moved together with the two urn gravestones to the elective site acquired by Meta Sanders, and that her own resting place should also be there. That was done.
Eva’s urn burial took place in October 1986, and with the permission of the cemetery administration, the two urn grave sites were moved to the family burial ground in Neukölln. The two previously standing urn gravestones were redesigned as lying stones and re-inscribed.
In agreement with the cemetery administration, the additional memorial stone for Jemal Nebez was erected on the site in November 2021.
