B’nai Israel Hebrew Cemetery

New Hanover County NC

Surveyed by Shelby & Tom Grant September 2012




The following is a complete listing of the tombstones in the B’nai Israel Hebrew Cemetery in New Hanover County, NC.

Location: take Market St (Hwy 17) and turn on N 18th St and the cemetery will be on the left across from Grace St.

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    GPS Coordinates:
    34.240774 N
    77.926799 W

    Epitaphs are as follows:

    
    
    Hilda Flitter Katz
    Feb 13 1919
    Sep 7 2006
    
    MM
    Florence L Medlin
    1920-2012
    
    Double Stone
    Kron
    Stephen Jay
    Aug 5 1945
    Jan 22 2010
    NOI
    
    Irving Jerrold Ginsberg
    Mar 31 1951
    Oct 5 2009
    
    Double Stone
    Greene
    Harold
    Nov 21 1914
    Nov 20 1997
    Jean Rubinstein
    Aug 6 1925
    Jan 21 2006
    
    MM
    Miriam Ramon Friedman
    Jul 22 1922
    Apr 5 2012
    
    Double Stone
    Rabbi Harold A Friedman
    Sep 2 1917
    Jul 23 1997
    
    Irving Bernard Margolis MD
    Aug 7 1930
    Jun 7 2002
    
    Walter P Ortell
    Jul 24 1942
    Dec 4 2009
    FS
    Walter P Ortell
    PFC US Marine Corps
    Jul 24 1942
    Dec 4 2009
    
    Nachman Nathan Katz
    Jun 8 1916
    Mar 14 2001
    
    Bessie Levin Green
    Feb 22 1900
    Jan 13 1994
    
    Rosalind Leder Segerman
    Jul 18 1920
    Mar 18 2003
    
    Julius Segerman
    Jun 8 1914
    Jan 25 1990
    
    Double Stone
    Leder
    Julian Herman Leder
    May 4 1901
    Oct 1 1991
    Yetta Leinwand Leder
    Feb 15 1907
    Feb 13 1990
    
    Bettye Stein
    Died
    Oct 8 1953
    
    Colman Horowitz
    Feb 12 1920
    Jan 5 1963
    
    Double Stone
    Garil
    Stanley
    Mar 13 1933
    Apr 1 1998
    NOI
    
    Claire Brodie Warshaw
    May 15 1906
    Dec 29 1985
    
    Rachel Abrams
    Died
    Mar 2 1988
    
    Harry Elias Abrams
    Oct 13 1894
    Jan 11 1989
    
    Tillie Davis
    Apr 7 1888
    Nov 9 1976
    
    Egon Rosenblum
    Mar 17 1898
    Feb 4 1959
    
    Hyman Horowitz
    Died
    Aug 13 1911
    
    Golda Lee Ratner Fox
    Oct 11 1928
    Oct 2 2007
    
    Raymond Milton Fox
    Jun 14 1923
    Jan 2 1999
    
    Double Stone
    Schwartz
    Sophie Dana
    May 22 1999
    May 27 1999
    Elliott Maxwell
    May 22 1999
    May 25 1999
    
    Mogulefsky
    Jun 14 1945
    NOD
    
    Nathan Aronoe
    Died
    Feb 11 1942
    
    Joseph Bass
    Jul 15 1888
    Nov 11 1942
    
    Ida Plisco
    Died
    Sep 2 1946
    Age 57 yrs
    
    Anna Stein Plisco
    Nov 27 1910
    Feb 23 1993
    
    Noah Plisco
    Aug 21 1914
    Dec 30 1966
    
    Elsie Shain
    Aug 10 1930
    Sep 13 2010
    
    Jerome Shain
    Dec 18 1928
    Sep 18 2004
    
    Freda R Hurwitz
    Jun 16 1892
    Jan 14 1997
    
    Isaac Hurwitz
    Apr 2 1877
    Feb 12 1947
    
    Joseph David Levine
    Jan 4 1909
    Feb 16 1974
    
    Esther Levine
    1877-1961
    
    Isaac Levine
    Mar 27 1963
    NOD
    
    Morris I Davis
    Nov 6 1885
    Apr 18 1973
    
    Norman Hurwitz
    Oct 7 1917
    Jan 6 1998
    
    Abe Rubin
    Jul 7 1904
    Sep 20 1995
    
    Norma E May
    Oct 16 1924
    Apr 16 2008
    
    Frances L May
    May 21 1914
    May 12 1976
    
    Harold May
    Dec 12 1909
    Feb 7 1984
    
    Esther L May
    Aug 17 1889
    Mar 26 1973
    
    Benjamin May
    Sep 8 1882
    Dec 23 1975
    
    Ann Turem Berger
    Apr 6 1904
    Dec 17 1998
    
    Samuel Berger
    Jan 2 1901
    Jul 22 1974
    
    Annie Berger
    Died
    Apr 23 1955
    Age 77 yrs
    
    Harry Berger
    Died
    Nov 1 1954
    Age 81 yrs
    
    Lena Wolk
    Aug 15 1882
    Dec 28 1952
    
    Nathan Schwartz
    Mar 9 1916
    May 1 2008
    
    Louise Berman Schwartz
    Oct 27 1924
    Jul 22 2003
    
    William Schwartz
    Aug 19 1922
    Mar 8 2003
    Mayor of Wilmington
    1983-1985
    
    Sylvia Wolk Schwartz
    Jun 3 1911
    Aug 7 1997
    
    Benjamin David Schwartz
    Jan 17 1909
    Jul 11 2001
    Mayor of Wilmington
    1969-1972
    NC House of Representatives
    1972-1978
    NC Senate
    1978-1980
    
    Joseph Max Schwartz
    Oct 28 1923
    Jun 1 1992
    
    Louis Schwartz
    1884-1963
    
    Sidney Melvin Schwartz
    1917-1952
    
    Naomi Tockar
    Died
    May 11 1938
    
    Anna Briskin
    Died
    Aug 2 1933
    
    Benjamin Kaminsky
    Aug 15 1897
    Mar 13 1920
    
    Benjamin Raskind
    Nov 19 1917
    Mar 23 2011
    
    Annie Schwartz
    1885-1962
    
    Double Stone
    Popkin
    Sidney
    Nov 9 1927
    Sep 27 2007
    Marie Sellers
    Nov 15 1928
    Aug 5 2006
    
    Benjamin Kramer
    Died
    May 2 2001
    Age 87 yrs
    
    Ethel Kramer
    Died
    Dec 4 2006
    Age 85 yrs
    
    Justin Raphael
    1st Lt US Army
    World War II
    Apr 8 1923
    Mar 31 2010
    
    Arthur Apple
    Jul 24 1920
    Apr 12 1997
    
    Joseph L Freedland
    Sep 26 1910
    May 8 2003
    
    Sara From Freedland
    Sep 12 1912
    Dec 30 1984
    
    Vivian Katzoff Kramer
    Feb 24 1911
    Aug 18 2009
    
    Harry Edward Kramer
    Feb 27 1910
    Aug 14 1983
    
    Ruth Goldman Caplan
    Feb 25 1925
    Jul 1 1973
    
    George Caplan
    Jun 3 1912
    Oct 6 2007
    
    Harold Brandeis Abrams
    Jun 6 1916
    Jan 3 1978
    
    Myrtle Weiner Zipser
    Feb 16 1922
    Sep 8 1993
    
    Annie Goldstein Abrams
    Dec 21 1891
    Jul 6 1978
    
    Robert B Shain
    Jun 27 1936
    Sep 14 2003 
    
    Helen G Checkner
    Oct 10 1902
    Dec 8 2001
    
    Solomon Checkner
    Mar 15 1901
    Dec 26 1968
    
    Evelyn Moskowitz Cohen
    Jan 11 1923
    Mar 3 2002
    
    Charles Cohen
    Jul 31 1913
    May 9 1993
    
    Herbert Moskowitz
    Mar 18 1928
    May 30 1995
    
    Liba C Moskowitz
    Mar 18 1893
    Nov 11 1979
    
    Jacob Moskowitz
    Nov 15 1887
    Jul 2 1963
    
    Solomon Shain
    1891-1970
    
    Mary B Shain
    1899-1962
    
    Meyer Aaron Miller
    Died
    Jun 20 1961
    
    Naomi Ostrie Miller
    May 28 1898
    Jul 9 1987
    
    Nathan Horowitz
    Feb 8 1928
    May 15 1961
    
    Louis Lieberman
    Died
    Jul 13 1959
    
    Sarah Horowitz
    Jul 4 1894
    May 4 1974
    
    Jacob Horowitz
    May 15 1888
    Jan 13 1955
    
    Morris Friedland
    Aug 10 1907
    Nov 30 1992
    
    Sarah Friedland
    Sep 17 1909
    Dec 23 1982
    
    David Paul
    Son of
    Morris & Sarah Friedland
    Jan 6 1942
    Oct 18 1948
    
    Jacob Hurwitz
    Jan 12 1885
    Jul 1 1947
    
    Gladys Hurwitz
    NOI
    
    Sylvia Hurwitz
    NOI
    
    Moses L Hurwitz
    Died
    Mar 23 1942
    Age 62 yrs
    
    Hyman Stein
    Died
    Jul 24 1930
    Age 45 yrs
    
    Goldie Shain Stein
    Jan 15 1886
    Nov 15 1973
    
    Max Margolis
    Jan 10 1883
    Jul 3 1937
    
    Celia Margolis
    Wife of
    Isreal Nathan Kramer
    Feb 2 1889
    Oct 12 1957
    
    Israel Nathan Kramer
    Died
    Sep 26 1943
    Age 60 yrs
    
    Arthur Aaron Schwartz
    Sgt US Air Corps
    Jun 16 1919
    Killed in Action
    Dec 17 1943
    Hebrew translation by 
    Elana Kahn:
    Here lies buried
    Our beloved son and husband
    The soldier Reb Aharon Avraham 
    ben Reb Yitzchak Shvartz 
    (Aaron Abraham
    son of Isaac Schwartz)
    Who was killed in the 
    Second World War 
    On the 20th of Kislev 5704 
    (Dec 17, 1943)
    And was buried here 
    with great honor
    On the 6th of Menachem Av 5708 
    (Aug 11, 1948)
    
    David B Shore
    Dec 25 1895
    Jul 25 1959
    
    Jacob Miller
    Died
    Nov 21 1949
    Age 57 yrs
    
    Joseph Simon Mann
    Oct 13 1896
    Jan 14 1968
    
    Lillie Margolis
    Wife of
    Joseph S Mann
    Dec 25 1898
    May 23 1950
    
    Mary S Margolis
    Wife of
    Harry E Margolis
    1880-1955
    
    Harry E Margolis
    Oct 1 1878
    Oct 26 1951
    
    Philip Leinwand
    May 25 1885
    Aug 21 1958
    
    Esther N Leinwand
    Mar 14 1884
    Oct 23 1953
    
    Harry J Stein
    Jul 1 1900
    Jan 26 1990
    
    Minnie Jaffe Stein
    Dec 25 1910
    Nov 7 2001
    
    Dora Wolfe Jaffe
    Sep 25 1887
    Sep 2 1973
    
    Harry Jaffe
    May 31 1887
    May 17 1962
    
    Sam Evenson
    Mar 15 1889
    Jan 17 1967
    
    Becky Wolff Evenson
    Dec 17 1896
    Apr 18 1969
    
    Norman Evenson
    Jun 30 1921
    Jun 8 2009
    
    Jerome Evenson
    Aug 4 1929
    Nov 15 1999
    
    Alan Michael Evenson
    Jan 7 1959
    Oct 2 1983
    
    Mary Axler
    Mar 12 1900
    Jan 26 1968
    FS
    Mary
    Wife of
    Albert Axler
    
    Rose N Alper
    Dec 10 1890
    Dec 30 1972
    
    George E Alper
    Jun 6 1907
    Nov 13 1994
    
    Edith M Alper
    Dec 16 1910
    Apr 22 1993
    
    John Edward D'Lugin
    Mar 9 1951
    Oct 6 1977
    
    Hyman Kramer
    Nov 17 1920
    Feb 8 2009
    
    Doris Zerden Kramer
    Oct 13 1925
    Apr 28 2011
    
    Celia Cooley Mann
    Feb 1 1909
    Dec 8 1990
    
    Simon Harold Steinberg
    Sep 1 1915
    Mar 24 1976
    
    Beatrice Mann Steinberg
    Oct 5 1921
    Feb 29 2008
    
    Anna Lowenstein Goldstein
    Jun 24 1899
    Dec 13 1999
    
    Abraham Goldstein
    Jan 2 1898
    Jul 9 1972
    
    Samuel Gintel
    Jan 10 1889
    Feb 18 1972
    
    Flora Pearlstine Leinwand
    May 10 1893
    Jan 29 1985
    
    Isaac Leinwand
    Jan 14 1887
    Oct 17 1970
    
    Joseph Burke Simon
    Nov 18 1914
    Mar 30 1989
    
    Dorothy Sater Simon
    Dec 18 1916
    Dec 27 1970
    
    Abraham Simon
    Oct 25 1885
    Dec 30 1969
    
    Gussie Burke Simon
    Jan 15 1895
    Oct 18 1985
    
    Moe Kotler
    Sep 25 1916
    Nov 28 2008
    
    Mary Kotler
    Jul 20 1890
    Jan 28 1965
    
    Lorayne Rubenstein D'Lugin
    1923-1991
    
    Eva Kaminsky D'Lugin
    1895-1986
    
    Jacob D'Lugin
    1890-1959
    
    Lillian D'Lugin
    Jan 20 1894
    Dec 17 1981
    
    Abraham D'Lugin
    Sep 14 1886
    Sep 17 1978
    
    Robert Alex Kingoff
    Mar 29 1960
    Aug 6 1994
    
    Samuel Scherr
    Apr 18 1892
    Dec 5 1957
    
    Anna K Scherr
    Aug 18 1893
    Jun 5 1973
    
    Sadie Lipton
    1894-1957
    
    Simon Lipton
    1884
    Dec 6 1952
    
    Edward A Neuwirth
    Jan 8 1899
    Jun 7 1957
    
    Henry B Neuwirth
    Died
    Jan 27 1950
    Age 85 yrs
    
    Shain
    Died
    Aug 8 1949
    Age 90 yrs
    *Can someone 
    translate please?
    See photo pg 4
    
    Edwin Shain
    May 9 1928
    Jan 18 1989
    
    Isaac Shain
    Oct 3 1887
    Jul 25 1973
    
    Harriet Abel
    May 17 1914
    Feb 12 1947
    
    Graham Bernard Davis
    Oct 27 1916
    Apr 14 2005
    
    Aaron Abraham
    Died
    Jun 7 1909
    
    Nathan Stein
    Feb 11 1916
    Feb 8 2004
    
    Esther Silver Stein
    Jun 15 1920
    Dec 9 2007
    
    Charles Finkelstein
    Died
    Dec 26 1955
    
    Jerry Joseph Popkin
    Feb 3 1923
    Jan 27 1988
    
    Double Stone
    Zimmer
    William Rudell
    Jun 21 1918
    Jul 22 2002
    NOI
    
    Samuel David Rabunsky
    Died
    Aug 24 1974
    Age 83 yrs
    
    Sarah Shain Rabunsky
    Wife of
    Samuel David Rabunsky
    Died
    Jun 9 1965
    Age 76 yrs
    
    Gerald Miller
    Son of
    Naomi & Meyer Miller
    Aug 12 1927
    May 14 2001
    
    Albert Simon Jacobson
    Apr 5 1916
    Feb 12 1959
    FS
    Albert S Jacobson
    New York
    Captain 409 Engineer C Bn
    World War II PH
    Apr 5 1916
    Feb 12 1959
    
    Rose K Siegel
    Dec 14 1910
    Jun 4 1994
    
    Joseph M Siegel
    Aug 5 1909
    Nov 1 1990
    
    Esther Block Guld
    Mar 21 1907
    May 22 1992
    
    Moe Guld
    Oct 25 1897
    Jun 23 1956
    
    Fred D'Lugin
    Feb 10 1906
    Apr 13 1958
    
    Rosa D'Lugin
    1897-1988
    
    William Nathan Kingoff
    Nov 2 1930
    Dec 21 2006
    
    Emma Rose Kingoff Retchin
    Mar 13 1929
    Feb 19 1994
    
    Raymond Retchin
    Oct 20 1890
    Jan 31 1975
    
    Ida Sarah Cohen Retchin
    Sep 23 1901
    May 3 1979
    
    Henrietta Helfant Neuwirth
    Feb 5 1919
    Jul 29 1967
    
    Arnold Neuwirth
    Oct 16 1912
    Dec 31 1998
    
    Eugene Neuwirth
    1898-1962
    
    Ruth Trucker Neuwirth
    Feb 25 1919
    Oct 2 1980
    
    Marx Joseph Neuwirth
    Nov 7 1916
    Dec 26 1992
    
    Anna Israel Shain
    Feb 8 1895
    Sep 29 1967
    
    Nathan Shain
    Died
    May 15 1979
    Age 86
    
    Morris Kaminsky
    Died
    Sep 2 1935
    Age 72 yrs
    
    Jennie Kaminsky
    Died
    Jan 16 1941
    Age 76 yrs
    
    William J Kaminsky
    Died
    Jan 26 1950
    Age 62 yrs
    
    Dora Mae Kaminsky
    Apr 18 1889
    May 7 1960
    
    Louis Abelovitz
    Died
    Jan 10 1930
    Age 63 yrs
    
    Sarah Miller
    Wife of
    I Miller
    Died
    Nov 22 1933
    
    Israel Miller
    Died
    Jun 3 1942
    Age 63 yrs
    
    Molly Burke
    Wife of
    Morris Freedland
    Died
    Sep 20 1936
    Age 47 yrs
    
    Morris Freedland
    Died
    Dec 13 1955
    Age 73 yrs
    
    Morris Cohen
    Died
    Jul 22 1942
    Age 71 yrs
    
    Joseph Goldstein
    Died
    Dec 25 1928
    Age 86 yrs
    
    Lena Goldstein
    Died
    Sep 10 1950
    Age 84 yrs
    
    Annie Zuskin
    Wife of
    Samuel Rubin
    Died
    Sep 29 1956
    Age 75 yrs
    
    Samuel Rubin
    Died
    Oct 4 1939
    Age 54 yrs
    
    Nellie Lustig
    Wife of
    Alex Sandor Kosch
    May 30 1881
    Jul 3 1963
    
    Alex Sandor Kosch
    Oct 5 1878
    Aug 15 1941
    
    Sarah D'Lugin
    1868-1943
    
    Samuel D'Lugin
    1859
    Jan 27 1938
    
    Benjamin Kingoff
    Mar 18 1888
    Mar 5 1968
    
    Belle Kosch Kingoff
    Sep 11 1902
    Dec 26 1990
    
    Rudolph Moses
    Son of
    Benjamin & Belle Kingoff
    Dec 10 1924
    Jul 22 1951
    
    Sophia Loewenstein
    Died
    Oct 24 1945
    Age 69 yrs
    
    David Loewenstein
    Died
    Apr 27 1960
    Age 92 yrs
    
    Sadie Stadiem Block
    1906-2000
    
    Nathan Ellis Block
    1903-1986
    
    William Block
    1874-1954
    
    Joseph Manfred Block
    Nov 20 1908
    Sep 16 1992
    
    Hannah Solomon Block
    1913-2009
    
    Charles Morris Block
    1902-1978
    
    Jennie Finger Finkelstein
    Died
    Aug 12 1971
    
    Milton Allen Finkelstein
    Jan 11 1917
    Nov 13 1980
    
    Annie Finkelstein Adelman
    Dec 16 1929
    Oct 26 2001
    
    Katherine Popkin
    Feb 24 1896
    Oct 23 1958
    
    Shirlee Davis Popkin
    Jun 22 1926
    Feb 16 2004
    
    Lila Popkin
    Jan 20 1932
    Mar 17 1996
    
    Alfred Bernard Popkin
    Feb 27 1925
    Oct 26 1990
    
    Martin James Popkin
    Apr 13 1933
    Nov 26 1996
    
    Double Stone
    Alpert
    Kenneth R Alpert
    Nov 1 1913
    Apr 21 1984
    Horty F Alpert
    Apr 8 1921
    Apr 21 1984
    
    Albert Mendel Schild
    Oct 20 1904
    Aug 14 1966
    
    Fannie Simon Margolis
    Died
    May 26 1972
    Age 84 yrs
    
    Ruth G Peck
    SKG1 US Navy
    World War II
    Mar 14 1924
    Oct 24 2009
    
    Abraham S Drapkin
    North Carolina
    2d Lieutenant US Army
    World War II
    Feb 12 1907
    Mar 5 1967
    
    Buddy Bernard Turner
    May 25 1918
    Dec 3 1967
    
    Ida Wolpert Moskow
    Jan 18 1898
    Jan 27 1988
    
    Hyman Moskow
    Nov 29 1894
    May 3 1968
    
    Charlotte Moskow
    Dec 22 1929
    Aug 16 1970
    
    Samuel Abraham Piken
    Jun 3 1894
    Jan 28 1974
    
    Beatrice Levy Piken
    Dec 19 1898
    Nov 19 1986
    
    Leon Blaustein
    Mar 21 1919
    Jul 29 1996
    
    Blanche Piken Blaustein
    Nov 14 1920
    Jan 29 1998
    
    Matthew Adam Hamelburg
    Son of
    Judy & Robert Hamelburg
    Oct 7 1982
    Oct 28 1982
    
    Leon Stein
    Feb 25 1923
    Nov 20 2009
    
    Milton Fleishman
    Aug 6 1914
    May 14 2002
    
    Evelyn Helen Raskind
    Aug 25 1915
    May 10 2002
    
    Emanuel Gellman
    May 15 1923
    Oct 15 2008
    
    Ann Muriel Heck
    Aug 2 1935
    Apr 30 2009
    
    Paul Aaron Liebeskind
    Apr 2 1936
    Aug 4 1991
    
    Morris Chotiner
    Jun 4 1910
    Nov 30 1984
    
    Evelyn Hirz Chotiner
    Dec 16 1915
    Jan 19 2008
    
    William Laufer
    Apr 13 1909
    Oct 8 1979
    
    Hertha Kasner Laufer
    Jul 7 1911
    Dec 23 1974
    
    Marilyn Alper Laufer
    Feb 21 1946
    Nov 29 1998
    
    Albert Morris Levine
    Oct 29 1927
    Sep 25 2005
    
    Goldie K Levine
    Sep 5 1900
    Aug 9 1982
    
    Julius Levine
    Dec 3 1893
    Sep 17 1964
    
    Samuel Hartman
    North Carolina
    PFC US Army
    World War II PH
    Aug 5 1905
    Aug 9 1968
    
    Sarah L Goodman
    Jul 5 1910
    Jul 4 1965
    
    Victor M Goodman
    Jan 3 1909
    Dec 31 1968
    
    Rita Lynn Simon Silver
    Apr 13 1945
    Mar 11 1978
    
    Barry Kenneth Popkin
    Mar 24 1959
    Aug 13 2003
    
    Herschel Creeger
    Mar 23 1914
    Feb 26 1915
    
    Henry
    Son of
    J & B Cohn
    Mar 25 1906
    Aug 7 1908
    
    Norma Warshauer
    Nov 14 1917
    Mar 13 1921
    
    Joseph Horowitz
    Died
    Oct 29 1943
    
    K Horowitz
    Died
    Dec 5 1918
    
    Minnie Hurwitz
    Feb 6 1886
    Feb 2 1919
    
    Joseph Max Schwartz
    Dec 25 1891
    Oct 25 1918
    
    Sylvia
    Daughter of
    J & E Margolis
    May 12 1916
    Oct 15 1918
    
    Fannie Mosias
    Wife of
    Samuel Lefkowitz
    Apr 15 1891
    Oct 7 1918
    
    Rose Wolfe
    Died
    Oct 5 1918
    Age 23 yrs
    
    Etka Renik
    Feb 27 1876
    Dec 31 1917
    
    Lillian Simon
    1906-1961
    
    

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