Harvard Cemetery

5903 Harvard Avenue at East 62nd Street
Heights Jewish Center, (ph. 216 371-2244). No office.
Also known as the "Old Russian Cemetery" or Ohavu Amunah Cemetery, the cemetery was established around 1891. This cemetery backs up to Lansing Cemetery.
(Not to be confused with city-owned Harvard Grove Cemetery on Lansing Ave, about a quarter mile away.)
With over 800 burials, the cemetery has been vandalized more than once recently. Heights Jewish Center Synagogue (216-382-1958) has a card file of burials. Some stones are illegible.

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