Wellwood Cemetery
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Wellwood Cemetery is a Jewish cemetery in Pinelawn, New York. The cemetery comprises many sections, each under the auspices of a synagogue, landsmanschaft, or group such as the Brooklyn Jewish Postal Workers Union. Each of these is marked, most commonly by a stone arch or a pair of stone columns. Many of the landsmanshaftn have dedicated Holocaust monuments to the victims of the Nazis in their ancestral town. Examples include Baranovichi
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, Poland , Sokołów Podlaski, Poland, , and Burshtyn
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, Ukraine .

Several well-known rabbis are buried here.
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